Troublemakers waving ‘Confederate’ flags stayed away this year.

It’s usually about June or July in Palm Beach County when the malcontents start showing up at public parks and ride around in their big trucks with big tires waving their ‘Confederate flag’ along the roads in cities like Lake Worth and West Palm Beach.

But warned everyone in early Summer: When you see one of those flags don’t get angry or upset!

That’s exactly what they want you to do. So what should you do? Just chuckle and laugh to yourself. Why?

They’re waving the wrong flag!

Do you know the difference between the “Stars and Bars” and “Southern Cross”?

Learn more about the difference below.

Most people running around with flags and banners in support of the defeated ‘Confederacy’ don’t know the difference either.

The Post’s Eliot Kleinberg posted this information in June 2015. It’s a lengthy article about the Confederate flag and what is causing so much confusion. Two flags are in question (both images below are from Wikipedia):

Note the stars and bars:

This is the official flag of the Confederacy,
called the “stars and bars”.

This flag IS NOT the flag of the Confederate army:

This flag is confused as the ‘Confederate’ flag.
It’s not. This is the “Southern Cross”, also
called the Confederate Battle flag.

Here is an excerpt from Kleinberg’s article:

The first casualty of any war, it often has been said, is the truth.
     First, this [the “Southern Cross”] is not the official flag of the Confederate States of America. [emphasis added] That flag, the real “stars and bars,” had a circle of stripes on a blue bed in the upper left corner, with two half-stripes alongside, red and white, and a full red stripe along the bottom.
     The flag that’s drawn all the attention, the “Southern Cross,” is a square banner showing diagonal blue bars and white stars on a sea of red. It started as a battle flag.
     In the last two years of the Confederacy, it created what later was called “the Stainless Banner.” It placed the “cross” in the upper left corner of a white flag. In the closing weeks of the war, to avoid the appearance of surrender, the Confederacy added a vertical red stripe on the far right.
     The “Southern Cross” spent 100 years in obscurity, then sprang to prominence in the 1950s. It was part of a movement scholars say had nothing to do with heritage and was instead an act of defiance to federal civil rights efforts.
     A big part of the problem is ignorance of the complexity of the Civil War and its causes, said Irvin Winsboro, a professor of history at Florida Gulf Coast University and author of “Florida’s Civil War: Explorations into Conflict, Interpretations, and Memory.”
     “The event is fact,” Winsboro said of the Civil War. “The causation is open to interpretation.”
     Many Floridians now are Northern transplants. But Florida in the 1860s had more black slaves than white people and was the third state to secede from the Union. And brutal Jim Crow practices continued for decades.

The “Southern Cross” is an act of defiance, not against ‘Northern aggression’ but against the civil rights movement in the 1950s.

Period. End of story.

At a ‘Confederate flag’ rally in Loxahatchee in July 2015 the attendees rallied around the wrong flag.

Here is a picture from the rally taken by Bruce Bennett (including caption) from The Palm Beach Post:

“If the south would’ve won, we would’ve had it made”. Who exactly is “we”?