[flyervet]

Once again, read the Georgia Senate's own account into the 1956 change. If anyone would know what happened during the 1956 General Assembly, it would be the Georgia Senate, wouldn't it?

Again, in order to swallow this tripe about the 1956 flag being a memorial to the Confederacy, you have to not only disregard the Georgia Senate's own account, but the words of the politicians of the time and the fact that the pre-1956 flag was already a memorial to the Confederacy which was designed by a Confederate officer.

[doryfunk]

The link you listed is from the 2000 General Assembly, many of whom wouldnt know a snake if it jumped up and bit 'em. Despite their insistence to the contrary, the members of the 2000 General Assembly that made the report started with a foregone conclusion and argued fallaciously to 'prove' their point. They argued that the Confederate Battle Emblem on the Mississippi flag werent racist because it was placed their before such connotations were attached to the flag. They said that the connotation of the flag had changed by the time the Georgia General Assembly placed the emblem on the Georgia flag and cited the Dixiecrat revolt as a major source of the change in this connotation. They went so far as to quote dixiecrats that said the flag sent a clear message. The problem is that the current legislature misconstrues that message as one of racism. The true message of the battle flag when it flew in the Revolution of 1861, when it was used by the Dixiecrats, when it was placed on the Georgia flag in 1956, and today is resistance to federal tyranny and support for limited constituted government. It supports State's rights and signifies the South's willingness to fight such tyranny. The 2000 general assembly misconstrued this message based on their biased view of the flag before the research started. Their bias is obvious to all with a reasonable grasp of Southern history. Hell, they refer to the first battle of Mannassas as the Battle of Bull Run. It should be obvious that government schools and media have done the job of their yankee propoganda masters.

Their are alot of people who know better than the current general assembly. The ones who new best were the ones who passed the flag change back in 1956 and specifically, the man that designed the 1956 flag. They both said and continue to say that it was desingned as a memorial to the Confederacy and the ideals of State's rights.

When I was in the federal Navy, people used to always come by and say, why do you fly your flag(one of the few personal items we were allowed to display was a State flag). They said people from Georgia and Texas always fly their State flags. Nobody else does. Sadly, with the change of the State flag we have gone from a flag that most took pride in to one that nobody takes pride in. Even the carpetbagger and scalawag sellouts in Atlanta that passed the flag change dont fly that flag.