The flag resonated with defenders of Southern "hillbilly" or "redneck" culture. In the CBS series, "Dukes of Hazzard," it appeared on the roof of a Dodge Charger named "The General Lee." Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd displayed in on album covers. It was stamped on shot glasses and T shirts, and it adorned bikinis on California beaches.

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But John Coski, a historian at the American Civil War Museum, who documented the banner's divisive history in his 2005 book, "The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem," warns against simplifying what it stands for.

The flag enters American popular culture outside the South, attracting the attention of the national media, as a symbol of rejection, rebellion and youthful hijinks.

(The United States, South Carolina and Confederate Battle flags, top-botton, fly above the dome of the S.C. Statehouse Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1996. S.C. Gov. David Beasley will go on statewide television Tuesday night to talk about his desire to take the Confederate Battle flag off the Statehouse. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky)

( September 1963 -- The opposition to the integration of Birmingham schools spread to a variety of locations. Here, a protestor pickets at Woodlawn High School. (Robert Adams/The Birmingham News)

Then-Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. ordered the Confederate battle flag be removed from atop the Capitol dome. It came down April 30, 1993. He had been Governor for all of a week.

Over the past century and a half, he writes, the battle standard has evolved into "a widely and carelessly used symbol of many things, including the South as a distinctive region, individual rebelliousness, a self conscious 'redneck' culture, and segregation and racism."

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The flag was raised over the Alabama Capitol when Robert Kennedy visited to speak over issues such as desegregation with then-Gov. George Wallace, further cementing its link with opposition to civil rights.

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The flag showed up in the Baltic states following their liberation from Soviet rule - one of many places where the flag has won a following: Brazilian descendants of Confederate veterans celebrate their U.S. ancestry at an annual Festa Confederada; in Sweden, it is flaunted as an example of American kitsch; and in Germany, where the swastika is banned, some neo-Nazis rally instead around the Confederate flag.

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The banner has become more popular than the Confederacy's first official flag, the Stars and Bars, which resembled the Union's Stars and Stripes with three red and white stripes bordering a blue square with seven white stars.

On the order of then-Gov. Robert Bentley, the Confederate battle flag which stands at the foot of the confederate memorial on the state Capitol grounds was taken down on June 24, 2015.

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The flag appears at Southern college and university football games and some other cultural events that were not directly related to the war.

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The distinctive configuration of white stars mounted on a blue "X" and set against a field of red is now widely known as the Confederate flag. But it was originally the battle flag of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

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After the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, Georgia changed its state flag to incorporate the battle flag.

The state legislature of South Carolina took the flag down from the Capitol and raised it instead on the statehouse grounds at the existing Confederate monument. The NAACP began a 15-year boycott of the state.

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( Demonstrators in Montgomery at the capitol before marchers arrive from Selma. (James Spider Martin\The Birmingham News)

Civil rights opponents heckled the men and women who marched from Selma to Montgomery, some taunting them with Confederate flags.

White nationalists parade the Confederate flag through Charlottesville in riots that lead to the death of counterprotester Heather Heyer.

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(In this Saturday, June, 27, 2015 file photo, Bree Newsome of Charlotte, N.C., climbs a flagpole to remove the Confederate battle flag at a Confederate monument in front of the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The flag's prominent location in front of the Statehouse became of focal point after Dylann Roof killed nine black church members because Roof had posed in photos with the flag. The banner was removed from the Statehouse grounds about a month after the attack. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

(General James W. Moore and Colonel P.R. Crump, Alabama Confederate veterans, pictured at a Civil War reunion on April 27, 1950.)

Recently, as political pressure has increased to remove the flag from public property, it has been flown in defiance on private property - from giant flagpoles along interstate highways and a private park bordering a public cemetery in Southern Maryland.

( Ed Jones of The Birmingham News shot this photograph of whites protesting the integration of Graymont Elementary School in September 1963 (Birmingham News archives)

In 1863, the battle flag was officially recognized by the Confederate Congress, turning it into a political symbol, as it has been ever since.

After white supremacist Dylann Roof slaughtered nine members of a Charleston church, online images of him emerged touting a Confederate flag. Amazon, Walmart and other major retailers remove Confederate goods from stores and websites. Then-Gov. Nikki Haley calls for its removal from the statehouse grounds.

"Everywhere along the Atlantic seaboard from New York to Miami and westward to the Mississippi watershed pert little banners wave in the breeze from car antennae, souvenir stands, bicycles or in the hands of youngsters, teenagers and grownups," wrote the New York Times.

A new political party - the Dixiecrats or States Rights Democrats, founded in oppostion to President Harry Truman who had desegregated the military - adopts the flag as a symbol of resistance to federal oversight. The party, led by Strom Thurmond, had a distinctly racist message."We stand for the segregation of the races," its platform said. The group met in Birmingham at what would become Boutwell Auditorium.

For decades after the war, the flag was used largely by veterans' groups at parades and as a symbol of Southern heritage.