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General news Daily PressThe Times-Herald, Saturday, June 28, 1986 B7 Confederate flags creating wave of controversy Orlando Sentinel Capitol. "The Confederate flag offends me," Rep. Alvin Holmes said. His resolution failed by a large majority. Holmes led a successful fight in the mid-1970s to change the order of flags atop the Alabama Capitol.

The Confederate flag had been flying above both the U.S. and Alabama flags. In March, a storm blew the Confederate flag from its staff above the South Carolina State House, but left intact the U.S. and South Carolina flags. State Sen.

Kay Patterson, a black and a Democrat, suggested publicly that the state not put the Confederate flag back up. The flag was put back up, but the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church passed a resolution earlier this month suggesting the flag be removed from the State House. ism, sometimes not But it would be hard for the flag to become a symbol of the biracial South." To William A. Black, who sports a Florida license plate on the back of his truck and a Confederate flag license plate on the front, the Confederate flag symbolizes the South's resistance to assimilation. "To me it's more a geographical thing than a racial thing, though there are some racial connotations in it.

I've spent all my time in the South, and I've seen it nearly destroyed by the Yankee influx. To me (the license plate) says, 'Leave me the hell Controversy persists over the flag's use in public. In February, a black legislator tried to have the Confederate flag removed from the House chambers of the Alabama flag (and other Confederate flags) to display at home or wave in battle re-enactments. Tom Hunger, owner of Winchester Sutler an emporium of Civil War goods in Winchester, estimates that 100,000 Confederate flags and replicas are sold annually in the United States. That number suggests the Confederate flag is among the United States' most enduring symbols.

But what does it symbolize? "Its meaning is not simple," said Charles Wilson, historian and staff member of Ole Miss' Center for the Study of Southern Culture in Oxford, Miss. "It's become a symbol of opposition to integration. It's also become a symbol of white ethnic pride, like country music. Sometimes the symbolism implies rac In May, pressure by black politicians in Memphis, caused a Beale Street saloon owner to remove a Confederate flag from the saloon's wall. Two white men protested by draping themselves in Confederate flags and walking up and down Beale.

The flag in question never was adopted officially by the Confederate Congress. David Sansing, history professor at Ole Miss, said the Congress adopted other flags, but failed to pass a bill that would have adopted what he calls the "Beauregard battle flag." The Confederate flag that is best known today was introduced by Gen, P. G. T. Beauregard, who ordered a new flag after the Stars and Bars was confused with the Stars and Stripes.

Sansing said the Sons of Con federate Veterans adopted the Beauregard battle flag as its standard in the 1890s. "They wanted the soldiers' flag rather than the politicians' flag," he said. "They wanted to pay tribute to the men who fought the war rather than to those who conducted it. ironically, it's this flag that has become the most controversial." Meanwhile, the flag continues to sell well in its various forms. Glenn A.

Miller, owner of the Orlando Flag Center, said he sells about a thousand Confederate flags yearly. Ellie Geier, vice president of Gulf Coast Screen Printers in Tarpon Springs, said her firm sells "mega many" "And they'll continue to sell," said Geier, who grew up in Ohio. "As they say, the South's going to rise again." One hundred and twenty-one years after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the defeated Confederate States of America's best-known battle flag continues to fly.

The familiar red flag with a blue diagonal cross flies over the State House of South Carolina, in the chambers of the Ala bama House of Representatives and, on football Saturdays, in the stands of Vaught-Heming-way Stadium at the University of Mississippi. Truck stops and roadside stands throughout the South, and in a surprising number of places outside the South, sell replicas of the flag on car tags, decals, hats, T-shirts, shot glasses and beach towels. Civil War hobbyists buy the battle Before Tacky festival to honor taste for tastelessness "Clearly, it was the only thing of its kind that's ever been that's why we're doing it again," Ms. Myers said. Over the past year, the organizers searched for treasures at yard sales and received many donations, most of them anonymous.

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Ms. Myers and other residents who organized the first display last year said enthusiastic callers, letters and donations to their "Tack Museum" demanded a reprise. "People got so happy. They laughed so hard," said committee member Jeanne Seetoo. On any furniture or carpet purcnase over wo witn approved crenu.

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