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Carter Stacy had no idea his YouTube video was selected to play inside North Carolina\u2019s booth at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. \u2014 until it caused a statewide uproar.<\/p>\n

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Stacy runs \u201cThat Is Interesting,<\/a>\u201d a geography channel with 248,000 subscribers, best known for \u201cThe US Explained,\u201d a deep-dive documentary series on each state.<\/p>\n

When Spectrum News posted a video from inside the booth<\/a>, it captured the moment when Stacy discusses the history of North Carolina\u2019s flags. On the screen is a flag with part of the North Carolina state flag on the left, and the infamous X-shape of the Confederate battle flag on the right \u2014 a symbol that has never been part of North Carolina\u2019s official state flag, even during the Civil War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest complaint with North Carolina\u2019s flag, though, is that it is based off the flag the state used when it was part of the Confederacy, a trend that is unfortunately still very common among the Southern flags,\u201d Stacy says in the four-year-old video<\/a>. While Stacy\u2019s statement is basically accurate \u2014 North Carolina\u2019s current state flag does bear resemblance to the flag it flew when it seceded from the Union \u2014 the flag on the screen is a fabrication.<\/p>\n

Because Stacy wasn\u2019t aware of his involvement with the fair, he also didn\u2019t immediately hear about the controversy his video created<\/a>. He’s from California, after all. But once he knew, Stacy edited the flag and his narration about it out of his video. He attributes the historically inaccurate flag once included in the video to an editing error.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI wrote that segment intending to show North Carolina\u2019s 1861 flag, which it adopted during the Confederacy, and which strongly resembles its current flag,\u201d Stacy told The News & Observer. \u201cIt appears that during the editing process, I unintentionally showed a Confederate flag instead. This image was mistakenly overlapped with the previous image, of North Carolina\u2019s current flag, giving it the appearance that the two flags were combined. I\u2019ve since fixed this editing error. I hope that otherwise, my video still represents North Carolina well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because North Carolina chose not to officially participate<\/a> in the Trump-affiliated Great American State Fair, the state\u2019s booth was run by<\/a> private organizers and businesses. One of those businesses, Mt. Olive Pickles, pulled its support in light of the video, citing \u201cvalues of human dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other organizers of the booth include race car company Richard Childress Racing, vehicle manufacturer Spevco, and Lorie Khatod, a strategic consultant<\/a> and former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Neither Spevco nor Khatod answered questions about who was responsible for selecting Stacy\u2019s video for the booth, despite responding to other inquiries. Spevco, however, said that it \u201cdid not create, produce, edit, approve or select\u201d it. The video has now been removed from the booth, according to Khatod. Childress Racing did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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The Great American State Fair will continue through July 10.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published July 7, 2026 at 10:46 AM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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