Until now, no one has mentioned the stars and bars in this thread. To my knowledge, Statesrights was the only one who regularly featured it in his signature. We are concerned with a very different design in this thread.
Well, at least I've learned something from this exchange! I had not been aware of the nomenclature.
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You may have noticed I was careful to specify the Confederate battle flag in the beginning of this thread as opposed to the lesser known (and less notorious) national flag of the early Confederacy: