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Confederate flag made out of flowers at the Confederate Statue in Jasper, Alabama, 2010. As a result of these varying perceptions, there have been several political controversies surrounding using the Confederate battle flag in Southern state flags, at sporting events, at Southern universities, and on public buildings. [54]
Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
Mississippi's House and Senate voted in succession Sunday to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, with broad bipartisan support.
Anti-racism protests have toppled Confederate statues and monuments across the United States in recent days, and even NASCAR banned the display of the rebel flag. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves ...
Republican former governor Phil Bryant on Thursday advocated replacing the Confederate symbol in the Mississippi state flag with another design.
Because of its depiction in the 20th-century and popular media, many people consider the rectangular battle flag with the dark blue bars as being synonymous with "the Confederate Flag", but this flag was never adopted as a Confederate national flag. [257] The "Confederate Flag" has a color scheme similar to that of the most common Battle Flag ...
Mississippi's House and Senate voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to file a bill to erase the Confederate emblem from the state flag.
The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-565-54109-2. OCLC 30780284. Documentary History of the Flag and Seal of the Confederate States of America, 1861-'65. Compiled by Raphael P. Thian. Washington. 1880.