I saw a strange thing in Greenville yesterday.

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10. credit to David O Selznick

Director of Gone with the Wind. The famous railroad station scene, where the camera sweeps out to show thousands of dead and dying Confederate soldiers being tended to, and with a row of Confederate flags flying. They were going to use this accurate flag, but the Director thought the other was much more dramatic. I have read that is the primary reason that the battle flag of Northern Virginia (Lee's army) became the symbolic representation of the Confederacy.

Then, of course, when it was put back up a hundred years later it had little to do with the Civil War - it was a sign of defiance to the coming "threat" of desegregation.