I am going to put in this blog local elements of neo-Confederacy in Dallas history.
This was the original blog posting.
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2018/02/dallas-jaycees-carry-giant-confederate.html#.XDn-R1w2qiM
Note the time is 1:24 for the scene.
Neo-Confederate often like to go one that it was some fringe elements that "mis-used" the flag.
Here we see the Jaycees carrying the flag as a protest against possible civil rights legislation.
This is the link to the video so you can watch it in full.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062768/m1/
It is about the sit-ins at the Piccadilly restaurant in Dallas, Texas in 1964.
This is the link to the story. https://blogs.library.unt.edu/yesterdays-news/2018/02/19/piccadilly/
The Confederate flag wasn't misrepresented by a few fringe groups. It was understood as representing white supremacy by mainstream southern society.
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