[BlueLancer]

LOL! Ain’t that the truth! I’ve flown the Bonnie Blue many, many times, and neighbors always ask “What flag is that?” I live in Illinois now, so I just tell them it’s an Air Force flag (I’m a USAF veteran, and most of my neighbors know that, so the ruse works).

It helps, here in Texas, that a version of the Bonnie Blue was used as the Texas National Flag for awhile after independence.

As far as the other one, I just tell them that it's the Stars-and-Bars and leave it at that. I assume that they think that it's an early version of the US flag.

[ought-six]

That’s because that flag WAS the Stars and Bars. So many think that the St. Andrews Cross battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (as well as the navy jack) that is so well known was the Stars and Bars.