The 1956 georgia state flag was a controversial flag that flew over georgia from 1956-2001. why was it a controversial flag? question 5 options: the flag's colors do not reflect the state's various landscapes the flag’s prominent confederate battle emblem most georgia citizens wanted the state flower to be represented on the flag there are not enough stars on the flag

The 1879 flag was introduced by Georgia state senator Herman H. Perry and was adopted to memorialize Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.[4] Perry was a former colonel in the Confederate army during the war, and based the design of the flag on the first national flag of the Confederacy, also known as the "Stars and Bars".[4] Over the following decades, the flag was changed by adding, and then changing the "charge" on the flag.