why is there a palmetto tree on south carolina's state flag?
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Palmettos are our state tree. It goes back to colonial times.
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They lost the war, but the values are still there. According to what friends I have in the South, they claim it was about State's Rights vs. Federal Intervention.\n\nSeems that for them it is a good symbol that although the fight is no longer by war, they still hold on to those values.\n\nCalifornia just faced the same problem with their medical weed laws vs. Federal laws.  They seem to have agreed with the Confederate values that State Rights come first.
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There are some blacks who see the flag as what it is.. the former battle flag of the Confederate Army that represented States' Rights and opposition to the Federal government. It was not a symbol of racism until the Klan hijacked it. \n\nAlso, there are many blacks who are descendents of the handful of black soldiers that fought on the side of the confederacy.  There is also a huge biking movement in the black community and the flag is used by a lot of bikers.\n\nI do know that there are even black Sons of the Confederacy in Nashville.
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Buckeye leaves.... it's our state tree!\nThey get a sticker as a reward for a great play or leadership.
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i think its an american flag!
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Confederate Flag was part of American history. Duh
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Most people believe that the Confederate Flag (more correctly known as the Confederate Battle Flag) is a symbol of hatred and division. They have been taught that the Civil War was fought because of slavery, and they feel that everyone who fought for the Confederacy were slave owners and believed in slavery.\n\nThere are others who are using this misconception for their own political agenda, and to CAUSE the hatred and division that they are screaming about. By maintaining this hatred, and racial tension, they gain and keep hold of the public's attneion, and the fame and power that comes with it. It is very much like the Whitre Supremist groups that spot false "evidence" in order to maintain their power in the public eye. Without the hatred and TV cameras that they need to spread their falsehoods, they just become another worthless, faceless person in the crowd.\n\nThe simple fact of the matter is this: 98% of the people who fought in the gray uniforms had never seen a slave before. Slave owners were usually rich, and it has almost always been the middle income and the poor who have populated the world's military services. They couldn't have cared one way or another if another rich boy had a few slves or not... it didn't affect his life in the very least.\n\nFinally, the Civil War was fought for a few reasons, the main one being the issue of State's Rights. The Confederate States believed that each state knew more what its citizenry needed and wanted than some faceless beauracrat in some city so far removed from them that they didn't know anything about them. The Confederate States believed in a weak centralized government and that the states had more rights than that centralized government. THAT is what the majority of the boys in gray were fighting for. \n\nThe Confederate Flag is very simply the flag they took into battle, and means nothing more than the UNion Jack, or the Maple Leaf, or the Rising Sun.
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The 50 stars represent each of the 50 states.  The red stripes on the flag represent the lives that our ancestors lost fighting to make this a free country.
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To give them more stability.  Their roots are not very deep so the tree could be top heavy when fully grown.  The base gives the palm bottom weight and therefore balances the top weight, especially when it is laden with fruit.
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The bubba's are racist and homophobic.  I live in GA and our republican governor Sonny Perdue got elected because  he promised the rednecks they could vote to get the old flag back, which was offensive because it had the old Dixie flag on it.  He lied by the way and there never was a vote on changing the flag back.
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Although, I AM one to "uphold" heritage , reinstating that flag would cause enormous racial problem's. In the eye's of African-Americans, that flag represents hatred, hanging's, brutality, injustice, ETC ETC ETC.\n\nAs a true "Southern Gentleman/Lady", we must begin to understand that ,although, our heritage does include the "rebel flag", the Civil War is over! You can be proud of your southern upbringing, but to raise that flag is an effrontery to 1/4 of our American citizen's. And this will not do!\n\nAmerica is the "melting pot". It is time for all of us to start "melting".
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What do you think the Confederate flag stands for? Most people think that it stands for slavery and racism. It doesn't. All the Confederate flag stands for is some states wanting to have more of an equal voice in government in the 1800's. We should embrace the fact that it's part of our history and honor all the men who died fighting to keep our wonderful country together and those who died trying to have a voice.
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The Confederate Flag was flown for the Southern States during the time of the Civil War.  Black people fought for the South and well as for the North.  \n\nThis was a terrible event in history where many young men lost their lives to fight for what they believed in. \n\nThe history of America should not be erased because of the design on a piece of cloth. It is a rememberance of a time in history that was very devasting to all mankind. \n\nIf people would study their history they would find that a black man brought the blacks from Africa telling them of a better life in America and sold them for slaves and that a White man "Abraham Lincoln" freed them from slavery.\n\nThe Confederate Flag is not a symbol of Racism or hatred but a sign of our history and heritage.
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Different versions of the flag were adopted on different dates, which you will find here:\n\nhttp://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/tx_flag.htm
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It is a representation of heritage. Asking southerners to not display it or wear it on their clothing is like asking someone who moves here from Africa or Italy or wherever, not to display their flag or heritage. It's the same thing. So I guess the people who hate seeing the confederate flag should also get angry when people display their state flag or their home country's flag.
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ur State flower's named for its hue\nIt's really a beautiful shade of blue\nIt's one of our favorites, we must admit\nThat's why in Texas we love the bluebonnet !
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dog woods. my grandma had some. she said the stripes are the blood from jesus crist since they made his cross out of dogwood she is very religious