Should we take the stars and strips down? No, we

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Should we take the stars and strips down?

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No, we shouldn't do that. The North, under the Stars and Stripes, won a war that settled the questions of slavery AND secession.

The confederate flag was appropriated by segregationists, so it's had a somewhat 'unpleasant' connotation for some of our citizens.

MS is the last remaining State with the stars and bars as part of its State flag. What have the other former confederates States learned that MS hasn't?

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-...rate-flag/

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3. The flag began to take on a new significance in the 20th century.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the battle flag was used mostly at veterans’ events and to commemorate fallen Confederate soldiers. The flag took on new associations in the 1940s, when it began to appear more frequently in contexts unrelated to the Civil War, such as University of Mississippi football games.

In 1948, the newly-formed segregationist Dixiecrat party adopted the flag as a symbol of resistance to the federal government.

In the years that followed, the battle flag became an important part of segregationist symbolism, and was featured prominently on the 1956 redesign of Georgia’s state flag, a legislative decision that was likely at least partly a response to the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate school two years earlier.

The flag has also been used by the Ku Klux Klan, though it is not the Klan’s official flag [/quote]