Georgia county votes to keep Confederate battle flag flying

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Georgia county votes to keep Confederate battle flag flying

By Christian Boone
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


In a county named for a New York congressman, a uniquely Southern controversy is brewing over the Confederate flag.

While the Dixie battle cross, first added to Georgia's flag in 1956 by an all-white Legislature resisting integration, was removed from the state flag in 2003, it has continued to fly at the Dodge County courthouse in Eastman as part of a memorial to Confederate war dead. Eastman is located roughly 50 miles southeast of Macon.

The local NAACP claims the flag was to fly only once a year. It has remained despite complaints from the civil rights group, which is prepared to mount a legal challenge to have the flag taken down.

"It's a symbol of racism and hatred," said John Battle, president of the Dodge County NAACP. After trying for years to resolve the matter and getting nowhere, the NAACP retained an attorney who sent a letter last week to the board of commissioners asking them to stand by the original resolution, passed in 2002, allowing the annual display. .................(more)

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1. I think this sums it up...

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2. Redneck land

Driving up from Savannah to Macon is like driving in an alternative universe where desegregation didn't happen. One guy has 3 huge flagpoles with the American, Confederate, and "Christian" flags on them. The Confed flag is usually the highest.