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  1. David Mcalister
    March 1, 2019

    What year did Dixie Fellowship patches just indicate the host lodge and not of participating lodges? 2) why does today Dixie Fellowship patches not include the Confederate flag?

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    • Jason Spangler
      June 2, 2019

      The answer to your first question is really just the choice of the host lodge. They come up with the design and in some years they made an effort to include all the lodge numbers and in some years they have gotten away from this. The patch has always resembled the totem of the host lodge but in some recent years the patch designers have not tried to make it too complicated with listing 10 lodge numbers. To answer your 2nd question it was 1991 when an article came out in The State (Columbia, SC) newspaper. The article was critical of the tradition of including the Confederate flag and somebody higher up made the decision it would not be allowed. In some later years there was a nod to it in the patch design (1998 for example). Today all patch designs have to get cleared by the National BSA and nothing with that element on it will every be approved since it is divisive.

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