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This is ridiculous. The entire flag dates from pre-colonial times. A portion of the design was misused by a vanishingly small number of racist idiots during the Civil War, but there was no organized use, and there was no Confederate Maryland banner of any kind.

Saying this flag has Confederate ties is much less plausible than saying the US Flag has Confederate ties because it has white stars on a field of blue, and the Bonnie Blue Flag was a popular Confederate symbol. Complete nonsense. The fact that a symbol is abused without authorization for a brief time does not mean it is invalidated. We fought a little war reconciling such things, as you all may recall.

I was taught that the red crosses on the Maryland flag were a symbol of the Crosslands, and the red buttony cross was a symbol of the Crosslands because of the Catholic influence in that region, thus the buttony cross is a symbol of the Catholic heritage of Maryland, a unique bit of history well worth preserving.

I would even venture to say that this campaign smacks of anti-Catholic bigotry...