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The Dixie Flag Manufacturing Company, based in San Antonio, Texas, is a prominent U.S. flag manufacturer. [1] The company was founded in 1858. [2] In June 2015, following the events of the Charleston church shooting, the company announced that it would no longer sell Confederate flags. [3] [4]
The Confederate flag is a controversial symbol for many Americans today. A 2011 Pew Research Center poll revealed that 30% of Americans had a "negative reaction" when "they saw the Confederate flag displayed". [46] According to the same poll, 9% of Americans had a positive reaction. A majority (58%) did not react.
Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
In the 1920s amid fears that Oklahoma's red flag conveyed communism, the Daughters of the American Revolution proposed the state design a new flag, and a design contest was held in 1924. Artist ...
The 31st Infantry Division ("Dixie") was an infantry division of the United States Army National Guard, active almost continuously from 1917 to 1968.Composed of men from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Mississippi at various points in its existence, the division saw service in both World War I and World War II, and was mobilized during the Korean War, although it ...
For the first time, our nation's American flag was flown in battle, on this day in history, Sept. 3, 1777, during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware. Here's the background.
The text on the flag was removed after the city council was informed that it was no longer acceptable to place words on a flag. [2] This suggestion was apparently from Pete Van de Putte, president of the San Antonio-based Dixie Flag Company, who also cited cost-cutting benefits in his suggestion to mayor Nelson Wolff. Along with the text, the ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [1] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."