re: To what extent does your state fly/use the confederate flag?

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That "other flag" was almost completely unused in that era, so, no, you are dead wrong.

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Everyone back then, as today, knows about the Confederate flag. Everyone. That isn't even debatable. A little known fact is that the first 20 years after Reconstruction the South actually kept the Reconstruction desegregation laws intact, probably to avoid pissing off the North enough to start a second Reconstruction (which the North wouldn't have done any way). A generation later, after the depression of the 1890s, the southern states started looking for scapegoats for the economic troubles, and Jim Crow laws were adopted. Alabama's current flag came out of that era.

But, yes--I think the point that I think you're getting at--is that a little known fact is that the Rebel flag itself didn't start flying over state houses again until the 1950s when the Civil Rights Movement kicked into gear. When people were claiming 15 years ago that they needed to keep flying the Rebel flag over South Carolina's capitol building because of 135 years of unbroken tradition, that isn't true--it was more like several decades.

We Texans tend to fly the Texas flag.

Already know SC does.

Interestingly enough, Oklahoma flew it for a while. They, like Texas, flew flags of the countries that controlled the state. It was taken down in 1988.

ETA as it turns out in a weird twist of things, TWO Texas flags flew in Oklahoma.

I have not seen any flag of the Confederacy flying on TN state property.

It is, of course, displayed at the Shiloh and Lookout Mountain battlefields. Which is a proper setting.

But I see it all the time flying on private property in front of body shops, barbecue stands, taverns, trailers and what not.

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Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas: all of your flags are symbols of the Confederacy. :themoreyouknowrainbowshootingstar:

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Wow, that guy is really reaching for the Tennessee flag.

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I have not seen any flag of the Confederacy flying on TN state property. It is, of course, displayed at the Shiloh and Lookout Mountain battlefields. Which is a proper setting. But I see it all the time flying on private property in front of body shops, barbecue stands, taverns, trailers and what not.

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Yeah, there are plenty at the Civil War sites. I know there's a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Capitol building. Also numerous statues all over the states, but I don't see a problem recognizing history.

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Since the Civil War, Kentucky has never officially flown the CSA battle flag nor allowed it on license plates.

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I can't recall it being flown in an official capacity either.

As most know at this point, we have a statue of Jefferson Davis in our capital rotunda who in this whole knee jerk reaction will inevitably be moved to the museum there.

The local NAACP chapter is also petitioning to remove the Confederate Memorial near UofL.

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I can think of one that represents a country that systematically exterminated a race of people and forced the remainder of those people onto reservations. The same country that put anyone that looked Asian in internment camps during WWII.

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That's the America I know and love. Our forefathers did a lot of shitty stuff for us to be able to have the luxuries we do today and then turn around and bitch about them.