No sooner do we emerge from a Confederate Battle Flag squabble in Lexington, VA than another emerges in Georgia.
The Southern battle colors are flying again, this time as part of an effort to unfurl huge Confederate flags along Georgia’s interstates.
Among the three flags that have gone up so far is a car dealership-sized Southern Cross north of Tifton that measures 30-by-50 feet. Two others are in north Georgia.
“We want to remind people of who they are and where they came from,” said Jack Bridwell, the division commander of state chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is paying for the flags. “Being Southern is nothing to be ashamed of.”
None of the flags fly in metro Atlanta, though Bridwell said the group is actively looking to buy a site along the highway or sign a long-term lease.
Even without the Southern Cross flapping at Downtown Connector commuters, what organizers see as a way to honor soldiers during the 150th anniversary of the Civil War has nonetheless revived the debate over the history of the war and slavery’s role in it.
These Confederate flag dust-ups are like Hollywood divorces. Every time you turn around, there’s another one.
Here’s a sound bite to ponder: “Bridwell, a retired educator, said any opposition is misguided. To him, the Civil War, ‘or war of Northern aggression, if you will,’ he said, was about economics and an unprovoked attack on Fort Sumter.”
If the attack on Ft. Sumter was unprovoked, then why was it “a war of Northern aggression”? Go figure.
Past in the Present 
What’s funny is, I’ve seen the Southrons agitating recently for these enormous banners use the term “big-ass flags” — Kevin should’ve trademarked that phrase when he had the chance.
Oh, well. Another opportunity to link to a story on the flag in Tampa.
It does have a certain ring to it, does it not? We should get him to sign the phrase over to us and then use it as the name of a Confederate flag manufacturing company. “BAFs of Dixie, Messrs. Hall & Lynch, Proprietors.” We’d make an absolute killing.
–ML