Just a quibble with the post ‘s title: The flag the fellow was flying was the battle flag of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, or in its rectangular form the confederate navy jack. The Stars and Bars was the flag of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1863. Few today would recognize it.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-csa1.html#starsbars
I wonder what would happen if folks started flying that flag. You could likely wear a sports coat with the true Stars and Bars patch on it to a NAACP convention and attract little notice.
Minutia.
Like arguing over clockwise and counterclockwise swastikas.
Thank you for posting this. And you are correct: I had forgotten about the Confederate national flag. This is hardly a quibble. Details are the essence of knowledge.
(And, as an aside, if ever there were a just cause in this world, it was the South’s desire to free itself, legally under the Constitution, of an imperial federal government.)
I put the above in parentheses as I am not trying to hijack this thread. Yankee proponents please ignore.
Tiday I am flying the “Spirit” flag of the Citadel. I live in SC so people think it is just a pretty SC flag. It flew over the cadets when the first shots were fired at Ft Sumter when they turned away the Union supply ship. There are about 10 confederate flags 90% of people don’t recognize. I have 5 of them and fly them every day. They will have to ban a lot if flags to stop the flying of the “Cinfederate” flag. Flood the zone!!!