![]() ![]() “Its purpose is specifically to stand out and say ‘we are against the United States we are against the union.’” Andrew’s cross with 11 stars was designed to identify Confederate soldiers through the mist, fog, and gunpowder in the battlefields, Edelsohn says. Widely appropriated by white supremacists as a hate symbol, the “Southern Cross” never has been paraded publicly inside the Capitol before, historians point out. “It’s an outright affront to the government in its entirety,” says Antaeus Edelsohn, a University of Richmond law student and vexillology enthusiast. ![]() Of the various flags paraded around the seat of the US legislative branch, the most incendiary was a battle pennant from the Confederate army. Reuters/Mike Theiler A Trump supporter parades a Confederate flag at the US Capitol.
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