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The minutes of the 1956 debate do exist and they clearly say that the reason for the change was to prepare for the upcoming centennial of the war.

The UDC opposed the flag change, but the SCV supported it.

The documentation in the 2000 reports documents unrelated facts and then speculates that these facts helped the 1956 legislators make their decision. For example, they document the use of the 'Battle Flag' by the Dixiecrats, but they assume that this was done to promote racism(a false assumpition), and they further assume that the 1956 legislatures incorporated the design into the Georgia flag because of the Dixiecrats(another unfounded assumption.) The report is not a scholarly work but a propoganda piece.

The minutes of the 1956 debate do exist and they clearly say that the reason for the change was to prepare for the upcoming centennial of the war.

Uh-huh. You are right and the state of Georgia is wrong and we know that because you repeatedly restate your point. Sure. And Rep. Mackay was just foolin' when he said, "There was only one reason for putting the flag on there, like the gun rack in the back of a pickup truck, it telegraphs a message." And the 1956 General Assembly threw out a flag that was not only nearly identical to the CSA National flag, but was designed by a Confederate Officer, over the objections of nearly twenty Georgia Confederacy heritage groups to honor and memorialize the Confederacy. Sure.

I can just hear ol' Griffin now:

We had to spit on our Confederate Heritage in order to honor it.

The UDC opposed the flag change, but the SCV supported it.

Actually, John B. Gordon Camp himself also spoke out against the 1956 change (if you're at all familiar with the SCV, I'm sure you know who he is). The SCV of the time wanted the Confederate battle flag to be used only by the UDC, SCV and Children of the Confederacy for ceremonial use. Of course, their feelings, and the actual Confederate flag designed by an actual Confederate officer that was already proudly flying from Georgia's flagpoles, weren't as important as taking time out from a legislative session devoted almost entirely to segregation to recognize a centennial that wouldn't happen for another five years. Right.