Comments on: Flag confusion in South Carolina http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2006/12/23/flag-confusion-in-south-carolina/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cyde Weys http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2006/12/23/flag-confusion-in-south-carolina/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Cyde Weys Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:49:28 +0000 https://cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/23/flag-confusion-in-south-carolina/#comment-5 Luckily, I took pictures, and looking at the picture, I can see that it's the present Union Jack. I thought of another thing that could possibly explain this. The United Kingdom is pretty much the only other country that is really helping with the war effort in Iraq. I know that Southerners tend to be very pro-Iraq War (especially the ones that fly Confederate flags), so maybe this is a way of showing solidarity. They probably don't know that flying one nation's flag below another's is derogatory. Luckily, I took pictures, and looking at the picture, I can see that it’s the present Union Jack.

I thought of another thing that could possibly explain this. The United Kingdom is pretty much the only other country that is really helping with the war effort in Iraq. I know that Southerners tend to be very pro-Iraq War (especially the ones that fly Confederate flags), so maybe this is a way of showing solidarity. They probably don’t know that flying one nation’s flag below another’s is derogatory.

]]> By: Ray Chason http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2006/12/23/flag-confusion-in-south-carolina/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Ray Chason Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:02:08 +0000 https://cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/23/flag-confusion-in-south-carolina/#comment-4 Maybe the point *was* to diss the British. Flying two national flags on one pole is considered disrespectful to the nation whose flag is underneath; it's only supposed to be done in wartime, for instance on captured vessels. OTOH Britain might have been persuaded to pick the Confederate side during the Late Unpleasantness, if they had won a few more battlefield victories. Davis did his level best to persuade them. And British shipyards did build some Confederate raiders such as the _Alabama_. Did you note just which Union Jack it was? The last one to fly over the Thirteen Colonies was the pre-1801 flag. It differed from the present one in that the diagonal cross was solid white. The present Union Jack has a red stripe through each arm of the diagonal cross -- the so-called "Cross of St. Patrick", which Parliament invented in 1801 to give Ireland a symbol on the Union Jack. Maybe the point *was* to diss the British. Flying two national flags on one pole is considered disrespectful to the nation whose flag is underneath; it’s only supposed to be done in wartime, for instance on captured vessels.

OTOH Britain might have been persuaded to pick the Confederate side during the Late Unpleasantness, if they had won a few more battlefield victories. Davis did his level best to persuade them. And British shipyards did build some Confederate raiders such as the _Alabama_.

Did you note just which Union Jack it was? The last one to fly over the Thirteen Colonies was the pre-1801 flag. It differed from the present one in that the diagonal cross was solid white. The present Union Jack has a red stripe through each arm of the diagonal cross — the so-called “Cross of St. Patrick”, which Parliament invented in 1801 to give Ireland a symbol on the Union Jack.

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