re: tOfficial Flag Vote Thread

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These are Confederate flags so hopefully we won't be using the Bonnie Blue or the Magnolia. LINK

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I don't think the issue with the battle flag is that it was used by the confederacy, it is that it became a symbol of racism to many postbellum. The Bonnie blue was also the flag of the Republic of West Florida, and although it was used in the Civil War by the South, it doesn't have the offensive connotation associated with the argument against the battle flag.

Not using the magnolia is ridiculous, the magnolia is the state tree/flower so anyone complaining about that is just a Dendrophobic.