re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or did Southern Michigan join the Confederacy while the Upper Peninsula remained Union?

I need to check my history books…

But really, I can accept the notion that a southerner might fly a Confederate flag in memory of his heritage and family traditions, but a display like that in Michigan of all places is meant entirely as racist and intimidating.

Also, a nitpicking historical note: No Confederate Battle Flag ever flew above a State Capitol, they would have flown the Stars and Bars design, which was removed from the battlefield because it was too easily mistaken for a Union Stars and Stripes flag.

It’s amazing how many Confederate sympathizers (Con-Simps?) think the Beauregard flag:

is the “Stars and Bars”: