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===Civil Right Era===
===Civil Right Era===
The [[Dixiecrats]] used the flag when they opposed the inclusion of a civil rights statement on the Democrat platform in 1948.<ref name="historynet.com"/> During this time and during the [[Civil Rights movement]], [[Segregation|Segregationists]] used the flag as a symbol in their opposition to the removal of liberal, racist, and unbiblical [[Jim Crow]] laws.<ref name="historynet.com"/> The United Daughters of the Confederacy saw that these groups were not using the flag as they intended, and they condemned their use of it and encouraged some Southern states to pass desecration laws against the state.<ref name="historynet.com"/> Those laws did not have much of an effect.<ref name="historynet.com"/> States rights and remembering fallen Confederate soldiers continued to be a large motive for flying the Confederate flag.<ref name="historynet.com"/>
The rasist or segregationist use of the Confederate flag caused many [[African Americans|blacks]] to turn against it.<ref name="historynet.com"/>
===Modern day===
===Modern day===
Several Southern states base their flags off a Confederate flag.<ref>Ingraham, Christopher (June 21, 2015). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/21/how-the-confederacy-lives-on-in-the-flags-of-seven-southern-states/?utm_term=.5a605a01a36a How the Confederacy lives on in the flags of seven Southern states]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref>
==References==
==References==