Confederate States

Here is a history lesson/question.

Since, if you look up a list of the Confederate Sates of America, you will find 11 states listed - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina - why are there 13 stars in the
Confederate flag?

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anythingoes477 · M

Actually the "Confederate Flag" is a misnomer. The flag we call the "Confederate Flag" was actually a battle flag...not a nationalist flag. It did NOT originally represent the Confederacy in the same way that the Stars and Stripes did for the union. There were many "battle flags" in the south---but only one flag flown over Union troops. In combined Confederate regiment battles this caused a lot of confusion--who was who. Many regiments didn't wear uniforms--and of course in low light situations it was hard to tell who was who before you pulled a trigger even if uniforms were present. So the south eventually went with just one battle flag so all who fought under it would know who was on whose side during battle.

vetguy1991 · 51-55, M

@anythingoes477 that's why stonewall Jackson was shot

daisymay · 51-55, T

@anythingoes477 Unironically mansplaining the confederate flag has got to be one of the most pathetic displays of traitor worshipping I've ever seen.

anythingoes477 · M

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daisymay · 51-55, T

@anythingoes477 I'm sorry you lack the reading comprehensions skills to understand what I said, but that's your own fault. 🤷‍♀️

anythingoes477 · M

@daisymay I love the irony. You don't have a clue what sex you were even born to be..but yet you master reality enough to correct history and think we should just stand in awe and listen to you?????????

daisymay · 51-55, T

@anythingoes477 Oh, good, it's personal attack time! You mansplained the confederate flag. It's right there for everyone to see.

Now, try to insult me again, it surely makes you look like a civil person.

Zonuss · 41-45, M

@anythingoes477 What it was and is are two different things. 🙂

anythingoes477 · M

@Zonuss Like many things. In Mark Twain's day "darky" and "nigra" were common terms. Nothing racial about them. It was just the vernacular of the day. But if you said either word out loud today the closest Walmart would be looted.