Flag history

>>1923528
>When/why did the Confederate battle flag become associated with the Confederacy more so than the actual Confederate flag?
literally only because it looks better
>Is it recognized as a symbol of hate outside of America?
only by intellectual elites really, nobody else really cares
>Are there any other flags that have been "banned" similar to the Swastika?
no, nobody really even cares if you fly the confederate flag

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>>1923528
The saltire is a Scots-Irish symbol.

>>1923528
It simply looks better, just look at that sexy symmetry.

iirc the battle flag became the primary flag associated with the confederacy during WWII(or maybe it was WWI), when units from the southern states began using it. it stuck because it's much more distinctive and easy to recognize than the other confederate flags

from the time it became popular during the war it was a symbol of regional pride, but it became associated with hate and such when it was used by groups and individuals opposed to the civil rights movement. it remained controversial, with some still seeing it as a regional pride symbol and others seeing it as a hate symbol, until very recently when that kid shot up a black church and gave opponents of the symbol the political capital they needed to completely delegitimize all confederate symbols and begin systematically removing them from public spaces.

whether it changes from a symbol of hate to something more benign in the future will depend on a lot of factors. lots of people in the south still take pride in the confederate legacy and if these feelings manage to outlive the current zeitgeist's crusade then you'll start to see confederate symbols pop up again in areas and demographics that are sympathetic to such symbols. if the current zeitgeist lasts for a long time, however, it will probably succeed in completely extirpating sympathetic attitudes toward confederate symbols from popular consciousness

>>1923549
In California you would probably at least be considered a low I.Q. hick if you flew it anywhere.

>>1923528
Here in Britain it's seen as racist and my history teacher took one down in the class saying it was offensive. We're pretty cucked.

it rose in popularity as a symbol of southern pride around the 40's, and as such a symbol it was associated with the confederacy

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Isn't it kind of like how the Rising Sun flag is associated with Japanese imperialism/nationalism, is seen as controversial and provocative in some countries (such as China and Korea), and people mistakenly think it was the flag of Imperial Japan when in fact it was their war flag/naval standard.

In Balkans it's kinda popular.

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>>1923528
>why did the Confederate battle flag become associated with the Confederacy more so than the actual Confederate flag?
because their other flag sucked. it looks like a cropping mistake.

>>1924101
God its ugly as fuck.

>>1924101
The whole history of the confederate flag is kind of hilarious, honestly. They really had no idea how to go about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3S4geCv000

>>1923561
Bro, if we survived those early years of Radical Reconstruction, we can survive whiny yankee faggots that mostly already forgot about the whole mess.

t. Bama

>Is it recognized as a symbol of hate outside of America?
In Finland its seen as just some flag that fans of rockabilly and/or older american cars use as a decoration, nobody knows or cares where it comes from.

>>1923528
I've seen a few black guys walking around wearing shirts with the flag on, not sure if it's ironic or they just don't know. You probably woudn't get away ith flying it if you were white, but I can't think of a reason why anyone would aside from being an attention-seeking edgelord faggot.
t. South Africa
t. South Africa

>>1926831

kanye wears it (wore it?) so probably from that

>>1923528
It looks cooler.

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>>1923528

It's not banned but the original Oklahoma flag is politicized, since the state used to be extremely socialist. They replaced it when communism started to become a boogeyman but lefties in the state still use it, which you can imagine isn't very popular.

>>1923528
>Is it recognized as a symbol of hate outside of America?
Not specifically. We associate it mostly with redneck culture - guns, wifebeater shirts, flannel shirts, daisy dukes, cowboy hats, cowboy boots, moonshine, etc.

>>1926425
yeah, no one ever talks about Reconstruction. It wasn't reconstruction but fucking northern legalized raping and pillage.

>>1923551
Lots of Scots-Irish in the south so makes sense

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>>1923528
This is old version of Novorossia flag