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In Raleigh’s The News and Oberver, Paul Isom cuts through the crap about the meaning of the Stars and Bars. Here’s a nugget:
The use of the flag as a symbol of civil rights opposition – and worse – only grew from there. “The Confederate flag … means one thing to the Klansman: Here is a friend of ‘the cause,’” reported John Herbers in a 1965 New York Times story on a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
One more time, when you hear someone wax nostalgic about “The Lost Cause,” ask him or her what exactly was the cause that was lost.
