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To: celmak

“Uh, no; unlike the Confederate flag, the Bonnie Blue was not created for the Democratic Slaver Party.”

From your link: “On January 9, 1861 the convention of the People of Mississippi adopted an Ordinance of Secession. With this announcement the Bonnie Blue flag was raised over the capitol building in Jackson. Harry McCarthy was so inspired that he wrote a song entitled “The Bonnie Blue Flag” which became the second most popular patriotic song of the Confederacy. The Confederate government did not adopt this flag but the people did and the lone star flags were adopted in some form in five of the southern States that adopted new flags in 1861.”

It makes little difference when you consider that it was the first choice of those same people you’re calling Democratic Slavers, the people of the Confederacy. Raising it over the state house to mark secession also marks it as more than just populist.


313 posted on 10/16/2013 1:44:24 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: OldNewYork
"From your link: “On January 9, 1861..."

From the same link: "The first recorded use of the lone star flag dates to 1810." It was born not out of the want of slavery, but for Independence. I'm sorry that you cannot see this, but we are going to have to disagree agreeably on this one.

314 posted on 10/16/2013 5:56:33 AM PDT by celmak
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