# At what point in history did the Rebel Flag become

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 22, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-in-history-did-the-rebel-flag-become/693787 "2014-07-22T22:59:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-in-history-did-the-rebel-flag-become/693787/101 "2014-07-24T18:10:01Z")

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> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> But these are focusing on the niche cases, you can’t seriously presume that a work focusing more on the broad story needs to showcase black life or it’s incomplete, when the broad survey of black life was dull drudgery in that time?

The broad survey of human life _period_ has been dully drudgery, and yet that hasn’t stopped fiction from churning out interesting stories.

Your focus on how inappropriate it would be to fit in storylines about so-called “niche case” scenarios is hilarious in the context of The North and South. Very little in that soap opera was realistic. I mean, come on. A rich white woman falling in love with a slave and risking her own life to save him? Somehow that shit is realistic, but not two black people on screen speaking to one another about a subject other than a white hero? You can’t be serious.

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-in-history-did-the-rebel-flag-become/693787/102 "2014-07-24T18:18:30Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> There were very, very few black Confederate soldiers. Revisionists love to hype any possibility of black Confederates that they find, but the numbers were probably very very small.

I wouldn’t call Darlene Dancy a ‘revisionist’

[link](http://blackhistorymonth2014.com/526/black-confederate-soldiers/)

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