Hey, you're right, George. Somehow, in the dim recesses of my rapidly aging memory, I recalled reading about the flags of a few Southern states being altered about that period of time. But it turns out that Georgia was the only one that was altered in the mid 1950's. Thanks for the correction.

Wikipedia has an interesting section of flags of all sorts. Here's a blurb from their section on the Georgia flag -- "A federal appeals court noted in 1997 that the 1956 resolution changing the flag was part of a larger legislative package that year from the Georgia General Assembly which included bills rejecting Brown v. Board and following up on then-Governor Marvin Griffin's announcement that "The rest of the nation is looking to Georgia for the lead in segregation."

I don't know how you feel, but I've always been a little suspicious of Wikipedia. As I understand it, anyone can post an article, then the article is fine-tuned by consensus. I'm not sure I entirely trust it as an encyclopedia, in the traditional sense. I mean, what's to keep a child molester posting an article about the beneficial aspects of child abuse? It's one of them new-fangled computer doo-dads that I don't entirely understand. What's your take on it?