The looming demise of the Confederate flag
By Amber Phillips
June 24 at 12:09 PM
... the son of noted former segregationist U.S. senator Strom Thurmond spoke on South Carolina's state Senate floor, calling for the flag to come down ... "As a Christian, I believe our state's flag has become a point of offense that needs to be removed," Mississippi state House Speaker Philip Gunn said Monday night ... Quietly on Wednesday morning, Alabama's governor had his state's Confederate flag ... lowered and removed from a Confederate war memorial on capitol grounds ... Next, governors from Georgia's Nathan Deal (R) to Virginia's Terry McAuliffe (D) to Tennessee's Bill Haslam (R) to North Carolina's Pat McCrory (R ) all said they'd work to take the Confederate flag off specialty license plates ...
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