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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.
The first Confederate flag and five other nations that have had sovereignty over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States) appear above one of the side entrances to the Capitol. They also appear on the reverse of the Seal of Texas, which is the subject of a floor mosaic in the Capitol Extension.
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 in succession Sunday to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, with broad bipartisan support.
Republican former governor Phil Bryant on Thursday advocated replacing the Confederate symbol in the Mississippi state flag with another design.
The former flag of Mississippi incorporates the Confederate battle flag design. It was adopted in 1894 after the state's so-called "redemption", and relinquished in 2020 during the George Floyd protests. During the civil rights movement, the Confederate flag was used by white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate Black Americans. [107
Oklahoma state flag: Osage shield. In the 1920s amid fears that Oklahoma's red flag conveyed communism, the Daughters of the American Revolution proposed the state design a new flag, and a design ...
The rattlesnake was a symbol of the unity of the Thirteen Colonies at the start of the Revolutionary War, and it had a long history as a political symbol in America. Benjamin Franklin used it for his Join, or Die woodcut in 1754. [5] [9] Gadsden intended his flag to serve as a physical symbol of the American Revolution's ideals. [5]