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In reply to the discussion: the confederate flag [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The flag used as the "confederate flag" these days was never in actual use by the confederacy - it uses the Naval jack's proportions, and the Army of Northern Virginia's colors (the naval jack had a much darker red, almost a maroon, rather than the crimson seen in this example; and the N. Virginian battle flag was a square banner, not a long flag)
The "confederate flag" is a post-bellum creation, often attributed to the Ku Klux Klan.
It's honestly rather staggering to take a look at how many of the southern states use this flag as a template for their own. Tennesse, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina are the only confederate states whose current flags are not modeled after a confederate flag of some sort (I'm not counting Oklahoma, as Indian Territory's alignment with the south was tenuous at the very best).
I actually found Texas an interesting instance on that, since the design is very similar to the Confederate national flag - but the design predates not just the civil war, but even the statehood of Texas. Neat.