re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and again, the Confederate Battle Flag never flew above any government building, for that they used the national flag, the Stars and Bars until the final months of the war, when they started to switch to the Stainless banner and later to the Bloodstained Banner.

Also many Confederate battle flags were in fact pink.

In a recent conversation I had with a friend, we discussed the painting The First Battle Flags by Don Troiani, which depicts the events of November 28, 1861, at Centreville, Virginia. ..While many flags were used by the so-called Confederate States of America on and off the battlefield, one design would become immortal: a white-bordered St. Andrew’s Cross of blue, decorated with white stars on a field of red… and also pink. And though some of those bullet-torn, bloodstained battle flags survive to this day, it is hard for many people to grapple with the fact Confederate soldiers proved their manhood under a pink flag.

That’s because that up through the 1950s at least pink was essentially “red junior” and had not picked up any real gender specific limitation yet, much less become heavily associated with homosexuality among conservatives.

IIRC, Homer Hickam in _Rocket Boys_ talks about wearing a pink shirt to a high school dance.