Are these UDC members the white supremacists who put up all those racist monuments BLM has warned us about? How about those Confederate veterans above them? Some mighty desperate and despicable folks if you ask me.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

The Confederate Battle Flag's Divisive History-- Part 3: Used by Confederate Veteran Groups and College Football


Continued from October 11 and 22, 2019.

Over the past half century, John Coski, who wrote a book about it, said it has evolved into "a widely and carelessly used symbol of many things, including the South as a distinctive region, individual rebelliousness, a self conscious 'redneck' culture, and segregation and racism."

There are several key periods in the flag's divisive history:

**  Post Civil War:  For decades after the war, the flag was used largely by veterans' groups at parades and as a symbol of Southern heritage.  Especially used by the United Confederate Veterans which was the main group for them.

**  1940s:  The flag appears at Southern college and university football games and some other cultural events that were not directly related to the war.

--Old Secesh

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