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Since the end of the war until today, the flag's popular usage has been suppressed again and again. Have Northern distaste for the flag and occaisional laws banning its use encouraged its supporters? Does it hurt more to let it fly or to open oneself to charges of "cultural genocide"? What would be a practical middle ground? -GStan. | Since the end of the war until today, the flag's popular usage has been suppressed again and again. Have Northern distaste for the flag and occaisional laws banning its use encouraged its supporters? Does it hurt more to let it fly or to open oneself to charges of "cultural genocide"? What would be a practical middle ground? -GStan. | ||
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| + | Why was the symbol of the Confederate flag inflated only ''after'' the Civil War? Did the flag not hold as much meaning or importance to those soldiers or civilians during the war as it did to those who began participating in the memorialzation of the war beginning around the 1870s? -avanness | ||
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| + | What participation did the flag have in memorialization events after the war including Memorial Day and establishing Confederate cemeteries and monuments? -avanness | ||
