Committee decides to continue flying cotton-silk blend Confederate flag

Charleston Net ^ | 1/31/02 | ap

[shuckmaster]

COLUMBIA - Members of the Statehouse Committee decided Wednesday to continue flying a cotton-silk blend Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds.

The resolution passed the joint House-Senate committee responsible for maintaining the Statehouse and grounds without objection.

The blend is more colorfast than the all-cotton flag that originally flew at the Confederate Soldier Monument and is more historically accurate than the nylon flag that briefly was used.

The all-cotton flag was put at the monument in 2000 as part of a compromise to remove a similar flag from the Capitol dome and the House and Senate chambers.

When Senate leaders replaced the cotton flag with a nylon one, some lawmakers complained, saying the original compromise called for an all-cotton flag that would rarely flap in the breeze.

Sen. Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, said the switch was made because the colors on the cotton flag ran. And, he said, there was never any discussion of material in the compromise.

Critics said the switch was made to improve the flag's visibility and the nylon was replaced after it was pointed out that the material did not exist during the Confederacy.

The silk-cotton blend will hold its color longer than the all-cotton version, said Jennifer Jones, at the Ruffin Flag Co. in Crawfordville, Ga., which supplies South Carolina's Confederate flags.

And, Sen. John Courson, R-Columbia and a member of the Statehouse Committee, said the original flags carried by Confederate soldiers were a cotton-silk blend. The lighter blend billows in a slight breeze.

[shuckmaster]

Aw, Shucks!

[shuckmaster]

DIXIE PING!

[aomagrat]

I saw a T-shirt once that had a Confederate flag on it. Under the flag it said, "100% COTTON - AND YOU PICKED IT".

[4CJ]

Cotton-silk blend is historically accurate? I'm not sure about that, but the important thing is that it's flying proudly.

[BlueLancer]

No, remember that a lot of the original unit colors at the start of the conflict were completely silk. Gorgeous stuff, actually, but totally unsuited for the rigors that had yet to be faced.

[archy]

If a prettier, more durable, and more historically correct flag flies over this most appropriate place for it as a result of the controversy and thought that has been heaped on this matter, all the squabbling and acrimony will have been worth it.

-archy-/-

[billbears]

When Senate leaders replaced the cotton flag with a nylon one, some lawmakers complained, saying the original compromise called for an all-cotton flag that would rarely flap in the breeze.

I just love hearing arguments like this. Not whether or not the flag of freedom should fly, but what it is made of.

[billbears]

Sorry- this is no flag of freedom- its a flag of treason. If Johnny Walker "bin Laden" Lindh is a traitor (and he is) we should not show respect for an entity that wanted the same thing that the Taliban seeks- the destruction of the US.

LOL!!!! That's funny really < /wiping tears from eyes>. The South never sought the destruction of the United StateS. They just wanted to leave and be left alone. Nothing more.

[shuckmaster]

orcmasher member since January 23rd, 2002

Glad you could join & let us know how ignorant you are.

[stand watie]

EVERY time i see that flag flying PROUDLY by the Confederate statue, i get "misty-eyed". must be the air polllution in Columbia, or something.

for dixie & SC,sw

[Twodees]

I see you got your indoctrination from the NEA's liberal playbook. The Confederacy never attempted to destroy the US, they only wanted out of it. There was never a single trial for treason after the war. If there had been, the people charged should all have been northern politicians.

[Twodees]

The founders of this nation were Southerners. The framers of the Constitution were Southerners. The men who defeated the British and won the war of independence were Southerners, the northern street gang rabble having been defeated as soon as they showed their hands in the north.

During the second war with England, New Englanders committed massive treason enmasse, and never got any further than threatening secession. That is irrefutable fact. I doubt that any of your ancestors were here prior to 1900. If they were, they never amounted to anything, because you were obviously turned over to the socialist public school system and brainwashed.

If you don't know what you're talking about, just stay away from this kind of thread.

[BlueLancer]

One of my ancestors was General Farnsworth, the Union cavalry general killed in action at Gettysburg near the Round Tops. Two others were members of the Iron Brigade (24th Michigan). So you might say that I'm biased on these types of subjects. But you would be wrong.

I have to agree with you, Stand Watie, Shuckmaster, and BillBears, and will stand with Dixie in this regard.

Jeez, Orcmasher ... it's depressing to discover that there really ARE people like you out there.

[FirstFlaBn]

Interesting about your ancestor. I lost a collateral ancestor the day before a mile or two north of Farnsworth; he was a member of the visiting team. One thing to pay attention to on a vitriolic hater like this who inserts himself into the modern day flag stories: he is a recent member. My theory, based on sentence structure and grammar usage, is that this one is an old member who either got banned or destroyed his own credibility so that a new ID became necessary. I've seen this tactic used before and it is either one or two guys. So, if his lack of coherence on the issue wasn't enough to elicit your response, add in his likely deception. Ill-informed, unprovoked vitriol and a deceiver to boot. Nice combo, huh?

There are old hands who don't engage in this, and while I disagree with them too, at least they don't sneak around trying to shed their old discredited skin.

Most folks, even long time lurkers, enter the fray cautiously, unlike this clown. If I keep repeating this theory he will eventually catch on and cache a couple of new screennames for use down the road.

Thanks again for your comments.

[Nellie Wilkerson]

The right side won? You mean the 400,000 foreigners Aby-baby used to make war on women, children, the elderly, servants and other noncombatants in the South? Amazing what some folks consider to be "right."

[Nellie Wilkerson]

Nope. Thomas Jefferson said any people anywhere have the right to ALTER OR ABOLISH .... The Confederates chose not to do that, but simply to WITHDRAW -- and there was absolutely no law or Constitutional provision that prohibited it. Lincoln's insane notion that the "union" PREDATED the states that created it (LOL!) was what destroyed the republic -- not the withdrawal of the Southern states. (This is like saying a baby pre-existed the lives of its parents.) That's why things have not been like the Founders intended since Lincoln.... If you're proud of Lincoln's destruction of the Founders' republic, in my opinion, you're really weird.