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[–] oowensby 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Absolutely! The "Confedrate Battle Flag" was the flag that pretty much all white Southern Democratic politicians campaigned under between the middle 1950s and the 1990s - including Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and AL Gore.
Seriously, after the Civil War, the flag was always used as a big FU to all those yankee imperialist carpetbaggers trying to interfere with where they don't belong.
[–] Piotr 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I checked the claim about Clinton using the flag. Here's agood piece about it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/22/what-those-clinton-gore-confederate-flag-buttons-say-about-politics-in-2015/
Tldr: They were not officially sanctioned by the Clinton campaign but, unofficially, they may have been.
[–] oowensby ago
I'm willing to bet that there were pins and other literature that were authorized by the individual state party and Clinton campaign offices. There were almost always posters of Democrat candidates pictures imposed over a background of crossed US/CSA flags. The use of Confederate symbolisms in campaign paraphernalia was probably not authorized (officially) by the national campaigns or the DNC.
During the 1980s serious efforts to remove the Confederate symbolism from official state usage, at least here in my state of Georgia, began. You will realize that, in the South, Democratic politicians really, really need the Black vote. In Georgia, African-Americans are about 30% of the electorate in statewide elections.
The "State Approved Official History" of the Georgia state flag is here:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/state-flags-georgia
Also of note: I'm sure that 'someone' has been fiddling with the Google image search results. If you search on "Jimmy Carter Confederate Flag" there is no color photo of JC with any Confederate flag before the "show more results" button - or even with the Georgia flag of the time. Jimmy Carter made it a big part of his 1976 Campaign to appear on the stage of every "Southern Rock" concert that he could. The "Rebel Flag" was always featured prominently at these concerts.