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Originally Posted by transplant99
Yeah....somehow the real symbol that the Confederate flag meant/means got lost in anti-rascism.
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Rightly or wrongly, symbols can change over the years, and often times it's hard to recover their original meeting. The Swastika used to have a totally different connotation as well, and good luck trying to use that one without unleashing a beast.
I would imagine the people in Alberta are not flying it for southern pride or any personal civil-war reason, because unless there are a lot of Southern transplants, that just doesn't make sense.