At 11:21 PM 1/24/00 -0500, you wrote: >Steve, > Nothing has been decided. They keep having meetings and pro & con >rallies, but nothing constructive. We're from Alabama and have been >through this once. Hope they settle it soon. NITA > BTW we had snow again today. My son drove down to Columbia last night >and got stuck. >They're predicting another round for Wed or Fri. Looks like we're going >to have all our winter this week. :) >*************************************************************************** *** > >What is the latest news on the Confederate Battle Flag in SC. Just >wondering >if they had made a decision on whether to take it down or not. >Steve Vick > > >==== VICK Mailing List ==== >If you haven't visited our VICK MyFamily.com website, you are missing out >on a lot of fun and information. If you need assistance or you have not yet >received a tempory User Name and Password just contact me. >Linda Fiddie >jordans@rose.net > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > The press is making quite a fuss about the 'Confederate' Flag, while some that have a little more knowledge think it's the 'Battle' flag, neither of which is correct. Given the design and shape, it could be one of two flags, the Confederate Navy ensign, which was flown at the front of Confederate ships, or it could be the National Symbol of the Southern Democratic Party (adopted in 1948), which was also known by the nickname 'DixieCrat' party. I suspect that if one of the actual Confederate flags were put up, not one person in a million would recognize it. The 'Bonny Blue' flag of the confederacy was solid blue with a single star. The 'Stars and Bars' was two horizontal red bars, one white, with a blue field and white stars. The 'Stainless' banner replaced the red bars with a solid white. The 'Jackson' Flag added a vertical red bar at the end of the flag, and the 'Battle' flag replaced the field of stars. The flag which is claimed to be the 'Battle' flag today was never the 'Confederate' flag. It resembles the flag of the Army of Virginia, but that was a true battle flag and was square in shape. Ronald Vick