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Due to the constitutional rights of freedom of speech (oral and otherwise) there are no laws forbidding the display of any of the confederate flags. An American president attempted to return the captured battle flags to the Southern states in the 1800's but due to opposition from the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans organization of the federals, the federals did not return them until the twentieth century.
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 23 January 1996
Several Southern states use various of the confederate flags as the basis of their state flags and in addition fly the confederate battle flag along with the state flag. There is a movement afoot to cease this practice.
In 1879, the state of Georgia adopted a state flag based upon the first national flag, (the Stars and Bars), with the stars removed and a more narrow blue union extended to the bottom of the flag. In 1956, during the integration problems in the South, some citizens, believing slavery to be the main cause of the War for Southern Independence / The War between the States / Civil War called for the flag's replacement. The Georgia state flag, based upon the official flag of the confederacy, was replaced with a flag based upon the Naval Jack.
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 23 January 1996
It is widely believed that the only reason for the civil war was slavery. As a symbol of abuse of blacks by whites, this emblem of hate must be destroyed. Every usage must be forbidden. As an aside, three men were recently convicted of murder for killing a boy, who had a confederate naval jack on his pick-up truck.
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 23 January 1996
There are several reasons for people to retain the use of southern emblems:
The only national legislative action ever taken, to the best of my knowledge, was the recent refusal of congress to extend the copyright of the Daughters Of the Confederacy's insignia, which included the Stars and Bars, due to political pressure by members of congress.
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 24 January 1996