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===Rise in popularity===

===Rise in popularity===

Around 1900, the Confederate flags, particularly the Battle Flag, became common and mainstream throughout the South.<ref name="historynet.com"/> This resurgence was related to the "[[Lost Cause of the Confederacy]]" movement, which saw the Civil War to be over states rights and the South's military defeat not to mean any defeat of Southern values.<ref name="ALencyc">Cox, Karen L. (August 16, 2008; originally). [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1643 Lost Cause Ideology]. ''Encyclopedia of Alabama''. Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref> The movement had little, if anything, to do with racism, regardless with the unbiblical realities of segregation in the South at the time.<ref name="ALencyc"/> Despite efforts by the [[The United Confederate Veterans]] and the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] to promote the square-shaped flag used by the Army of Northern Virginia, the rectangular version used by the [[Army of Tennessee]] and the Confederate Navy became the most popular version for having the same shape as the Stars and Stripes and thus being the Southern equivalent.<ref name="historynet.com"/>

Around 1900, the Confederate flags, particularly the Battle Flag, became common and mainstream throughout the South.<ref name="historynet.com"/> This resurgence was related to the "[[Lost Cause of the Confederacy]]" movement, which saw the Civil War to be over states rights and the South's military defeat not to mean any defeat of Southern values.<ref name="ALencyc">Cox, Karen L. (August 16, 2008; originally). [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1643 Lost Cause Ideology]. ''Encyclopedia of Alabama''. Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref> The movement had little, if anything, to do with racism, regardless with the unbiblical realities of segregation in the South at the time.<ref name="ALencyc"/> Despite efforts by The United Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to promote the square-shaped flag used by the Army of Northern Virginia, the rectangular version used by the [[Army of Tennessee]] and the Confederate Navy became the most popular version for having the same shape as the Stars and Stripes and thus being the Southern equivalent.<ref name="historynet.com"/>

The Confederate flag continued to be used in honor of the Confederacy and its fallen soldiers during this time.<ref name="historynet.com"/>

The Confederate flag continued to be used in honor of the Confederacy and its fallen soldiers during this time.<ref name="historynet.com"/>