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"The flag is also known as "the Stainless Banner" and was designed by William T. Thompson, a newspaper editor and writer based in Savannah, Georgia, with assistance from William Ross Postell, a Confederate blockade runner. The nickname "stainless" referred to the pure white field which took up a large part of the flag's design, although
W.T. Thompson, the flag's designer, referred to his design as "The White Man's Flag", In referring to the white field that comprised a large part of the flag's design elements,
Thompson stated that its color symbolized the "supremacy of the white man":
As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause."