re: Ole Miss student senate votes to remove state flag.

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Bonnie Blue flag in the upper left corner, another flag of the Confederacy

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Do you mean the flag of the Republic of West Florida from 1810?




Although the name "Bonnie Blue" dates only from 1861, several authors have claimed that the Civil War flag is identical with the banner of the Republic of West Florida, which broke away from Spanish West Florida in September 1810 and was annexed by the United States 90 days later. In 2006 the state of Louisiana formally linked the name "Bonnie Blue" to the West Florida banner by passing a law designating the Bonnie Blue Flag as "the official flag of the Republic of West Florida Historic Region".

That flag was also incorporated into the flag of the Republic of Texas.

But it originated in Louisiana.


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