There are pictures....
take up too much bandwidth .... so I’ll be quiet ... (smile)
Heard it calling ... There is a way to ‘judge the heart’ ...
Yes, and your tag line is accurate, as far as it goes.
The CBF was "the Rebel flag" for at least decades. 20th century novels, movies and, finally, TV carried that definition. NASCAR bootlegger descendants and post WW2 bikers, and the Dukes of Hazard identified with rebel and not "slaveholder".
Someone else noted that the KKK (and American Nazis) favored the Stars and Stripes...along with funny salutes and costumes...well after Southern democrats had gone under official cover.
In the immediate post CW period (reconstruction) racism and regionalism were rampant and often indiscernible from one another; but not under the CBF...By someteime in the 1870s those groups had failed and crashed.
Not until sometime in the 1920s did the KKK return and by then there were far more unsettling events for them to protest. St Andrew's cross didn't lure them into mischief.