The “Stars and Bars” flag, currently the subject of controversy, was actually the battle flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
Scanning through the article I did not see Bill Clinton’s actions to support the Confederate flag.
If: NPR
Then: Ain’t buyin’ it.
There’s’’ honor and valor’’ going to war to defend slavery and violently split the nation in two? If the South had prevailed what would America look like today? Would we be having this furor over The Stars And Stripes?
Did the KKK fly the American flag?
Just wondering.....
Seems it’s the nature of Republicans today to fold a lot less neatly than The Stars and Bars, no matter how it’s done.
This attempt to erase history, culture, and tradition is disturbing. It seems to be part of a mission to fold the US into a global entity.
It’s not complicated. It’s simply part of the American heritage and our history. Both of which I might add are being banned, rewritten, admonished and subverted.
In the Mideast and elsewhere Communist and terrorist burn the American flag. In the U.S. they call the U.S. flag offensive to foreigners. It’s a sign of white privilege. While the Confederate flag is banned.
We must really be an evil people.
Meanwhile, Tennessee democrats are demanding that a bust of Nathan Bedford be removed from the state Capitol because of his leadership position in the KKK.
Where are the calls for the name of the KKK Grand Kleagle Robert C. Byrds to be removed from the scores of buildings, bridges, parks etc in West Virginia?
The complicated history of the US flag. Blah,blah, blah. All this over a flag that was official for about 5 years. We must be doing simething right. The establishment is very afraid of the Rebels !
No she isn't, she only thinks she is. Princess Lindsey will get as far as Hillary does.
I think that you have the flag designs mixed up. The first Confederate flag design -— “The Stars and Bars” -— consisted of three broad horizontal stripes (two red, one white) with a blue field in the upper left quadrant and containing embroidered stars to represent the Confederate States. It was easily confused in the heat of battle with the Union Stars and Stripes. Thus a number of different Confederate flag designs emerged. The Army of Northern Virginia under General R.E. Lee adopted the well known battle flag design of crossed blue diagonal stripes on a red background. This is the flag that you erroneously refer to as the “Stars and Bars” but is more commonly known as and referred to in the South as the “Southern Cross”.
So the Confederacy adopted three flags, and none of them was the "Stars and Bars"? Now why did they need three different flags? Can anyone post images of those three flags?
The Army of Northern Virginia battle flag, BTW, has 13 stars, though the Confederacy only had 11 member states at its peak. From what I've read, at the time the "Stars and Bars were first used, it was anticipated that Kentucky and Missouri would also secede to make 13, but that never officially happened.