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Confederate battle flag: Separating the myths from facts
By Ben Brumfield
Updated 10:33 AM ET, Wed June 24, 2015
(CNN) The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag.
Its champions have argued it's a symbol of Southern culture, the historic flag of the South.
Critics say it's a racist symbol that represents a war to uphold slavery and, later, a battle to oppose civil rights advances.
We take a look at the flags of the Confederacy to sort out the facts.
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gatiano:
Both the flags, the confederate and the union, is nonsense, whether myth or otherwise, they are not a flag which represent Truth, Equality and Justice. They are both hate flags.