[Colonel Kangaroo]

With apologizes to the true heritage types, I don't think you have to be unreasonable at all to be VERY uncomfortable with the connotations of the reb flag and it's connections to that other flag from Germany just increase the unease that much more.

[M. Espinola]

Whenever the issue of the Klan comes up the Lost Cause crowd drags out the same World War I era photos with the Klansters wrapping themselves in the American flag.

Right after World War II returning southern Blacks realized it was time to stop existing in state of fear. Many, after being overseas during the war became fully cognizant of just how horrible the repressive segregated South was and began departing "Dixie" by the hundreds of thousands, while others started demanding their rights as American citizens, like voting.

The Klan countered in many respects and reverted to the Civil War banner being that it represented slavery to them and they flown the Rebel flag ever since. Resulting from Klan ideologies of hate being identical with neo-Nazis, when today's hate rallies are staged each grouping of depraved thugs always displays their favourite banners.

The other relevant point was to demonstrate the swamp rats Klan members of today do not run around with the American flags (unless desecrated!) but are promoters of a new "old South" as the photo documentation clearly depicts.