• bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    Absolutely wild that the Confederate States of America was literally conquered and disbanded, and yet they were allowed to keep the flag.

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      5 days ago

      That’s not even the Confederate flag, is a specific battle flag of some shit battalion that obviously lost.

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      4 days ago

      It was the 1915, Hollywood movie ‘Birth of Nation’ that re-invented and restarted the whole southern states thing. One, of only a handful, of movies that year, almost the entire population of the U.S.A. watched it. This was when full length movies a medium was still new and influential.