“However, it is clearer and clearer to me that many of my fellow citizens feel differently and that our state flag increasingly portrays a false impression of our state to others”. But the Confederate flag, a few metres away on statehouse grounds, continued to fly high – as decreed by state law, which says it can not be moved except by two-thirds majority vote of the state legislature.
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The latest research from YouGov shows that in the wake of the Charleston shootings opinion has shifted further against flying the Confederate flag in public. But our list is probably nowhere near complete.
The flags – a Confederate battle flag and three flags with different designs used by the Confederate States of America – were taken down after a verbal order from the governor “first thing this morning”, said Mr Bentley’s press secretary, Yasamie August. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered that four Confederate flags be taken down from the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery on Wednesday. Smith says most of the customers want them because they are Civil War reenactors. Boise City Hall now displays 49 state flags.
Speaking underneath the flag on the South Carolina statehouse grounds in Columbia, Commander Leland Summers said efforts to remove the flag are shameful.
Protesters hold a sign during a rally to take down the Confederate…
“People of all races in Charleston and South Carolina and around the country have come together and had sympathy for one another, [saying] we can’t allow this to happen”, Hartvigsen said.
The most innocuous interpretation of the Confederate flag is one of southern pride: of defiance during the Civil War, of tribute to the lives lost and of a shared set of distinctly southern values.
A Confederate flag flies on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol… “The recent debate on the symbolism of our flag, which belongs to all of us, presents the people of our state an opportunity to consider a new banner that represents Mississippi”.
He said he support’s Haley’s call for removal of the flag “as a visible statement of courtesy and good will to all those who may be offended by it”. The rest have said they’re not or are dodging inquiries from the Charleston newspaper.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) – Apple said Thursday that it is removing games from its online app store that feature the Confederate flag in “offensive or mean-spirited ways”. He said the customers have been frantically trying to locate the Confederate flags, though they’ve never been a popular desing in the past.
