In Popular Culture
In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler decides to call his newborn daughter "Bonnie Blue Butler" when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are "as blue as the Bonnie Blue Flag."
In the 2005 movie Sahara, a Confederate ironclad warship is said to be steaming up the Niger River under a "banner of a single star."
Popular rocker Billy Idol named his daughter Bonnie Blue.
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