The white flag, which is used in NASCAR to indicate the final lap of a race, is not typically seen as a Confederate flag. None of the Confederacy's three national flags was a plain white flag.

Artist Lisa Jeanne GrafIn revised the flag in 2000, and in 2007 "June 19, 1865" was added to represent the date the legal decree was issued to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, the Jan. 1 ...