That's funny cause you're posting pictures originally posted by Cletis from Hick Creek, Alabama. Other images posted by Cletis include: please log in to view this image
Sorry you said the symbol was racist. As I've already said the stars represent the original states so they can't be racist It must be the big racist X then
Ahh yeeahh. Me nd brutha cletis be tite. Seriously I don't give a flying ****. You comparing the Saltire and the Confederate flag was quite obviously an open invitation to mocking you though.
And what has the Scottish Flag to do with the price of fish? Did Mr Thompson design it? Was it designed as a banner of racial purity?
You're saying the symbol is racist, saltire is the confederate flag without the stars, what's racist about the symbol?
please log in to view this image Those pesky confederate bolsheviks! It's a worldwide plot with St Andrew style flags at the centre.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060122/NEWS/601220429/1039 The beginning What is now called the Confederate flag was never the official banner of the Confederate States of America, whose secession prompted the Civil War. It was actually a battle flag first used in 1861 by the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee. Other military units followed suit, and eventually the flag — a diagonal blue cross inlaid with white stars against a red field — became the de facto battle flag of the Confederate army. Troops fought under a square flag. The rectangular version now familiar to us was employed by the Confederate Navy and known as the “naval jack.” The cross The blue cross, also known as a "saltire," derives from the St. Andrews cross, the main element of Scotland's national flag. According to legend, the firstcentury Christian martyr St. Andrew considered himself unworthy to be executed in the same manner as Jesus and convinced his Roman executioners to use a different cross for his crucifixion. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and the saltire in the Confederate battle flag reflects the Scottish ancestry of many Southerners. The stars The flag's 13 white stars signify the 11 Confederate states -- South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee -- plus allies Kentucky and Missouri. The memorials For several decades after the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag was seen mostly at memorial ceremonies for Southern soldiers. About 1920, though, the flag took on a more cultural meaning. Students at the University of Alabama brandished the flag to celebrate a football victory over the University of Washington in 1926. Fans of other Southern schools -- most notably the University of Mississippi -- soon adopted the flag as an unofficial pennant. Historian John M. Coski reports the University of Florida adopted an orange-and-blue version of the Confederate banner as its official flag in 1952. New identity Southerners serving overseas during World War II displayed the flag to project regional identity. Around the same time, the Ku Klux Klan adopted the flag as a symbol of its quest for white domination. Southern politicians, such as Strom Thurmond, a 1948 candidate for president from the Dixiecrat Party, also employed the flag as a totem of resistance to forced racial integration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scotland = racist!
he flag that Miles had favored when he was chairman of the "Committee on the Flag and Seal" eventually became the battle flag and, ultimately, the most popular flag of the Confederacy. According to historian John Coski, Miles' design was inspired by one of the many "secessionist flags" flown at theSouth Carolina secession convention inCharleston of December 1860. That flag was a blue St George's Cross (an upright or Latin cross) on a red field, with 15 white stars on the cross, representing the slaveholding states,[23] and, on the red field, palmetto and crescent symbols. Miles received a variety of feedback on this design, including a critique from Charles Moise, a self-described "Southerner of Jewish persuasion". Moise liked the design, but asked that "the symbol of a particular religion not be made the symbol of the nation". Taking this into account, Miles changed his flag, removing the palmetto and crescent, and substituting a heraldic saltire ("X") for the upright one. The number of stars was changed several times as well. He described these changes and his reasons for making them in early 1861. The diagonal cross was preferable, he wrote, because "it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects), because it did not stand out so conspicuously as if the cross had been placed upright thus". He also argued that the diagonal cross was "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical, it being the 'saltire' of Heraldry, and significant of strength and progress".[24] According to Coski, the "Saint Andrew's Cross" (also used as the flag of Scotland), had no special place in Southern iconography at the time, and if Miles had not been eager to conciliate the Southern Jews his flag would have used the traditional Latin, "Saint George's Cross" (as used in the old ancient flag of England, a red cross on a white field). A colonel named James B. Walton submitted a battle flag design essentially identical to Miles' except with an upright Saint George's cross, but Beauregard chose the diagonal cross design.[25]
