The Civil War battle flag accompanied a volunteer militia comprised of privileged South Carolina men who, in 1864, joined a terrible battle that decimated the battalion. A flag recently discovered
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The making and flying of flags occupies as hard-fought a social battlefield as the actual battlefields upon which many flags are flown. So, here’s a bracing argument-starter: South Carolina’s is the most beautiful state flag in the nation, bar none.
Ahoy out there, non-South Carolinians! Please drop some bourbon in a glass, settle back on the couch, and know that that joust was only meant to emphasize two of the more combustible human qualities that we put into flags: first, a sense of identity, and second, that somewhat thornier extension of self, pride. We make flags and fly them to broadcast who we are and how we came to be.
South Carolinians Mock Redesigned Palmetto Tree on Proposed State Flag
A proposed new look for the beloved state tree has drawn complaints that it looks like a toilet brush or like one of the palmettos battered by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
“They just think the tree is not a very pretty tree,” Ronnie Cromer, a South Carolina state senator, said of the public reaction to a proposed redesign of the state flag.Credit.South Carolina Flag Study Committee
Jan. 3, 2021
The goal was to come up with a standard design for the South Carolina state flag, one that residents could rally around, fly from their porches or proudly display on T-shirts, mugs and hats. But a proposed redesign of the beloved palmetto tree on the flag hasn’t exactly made hearts swell with state pride.