Charleston Shooting Reignites Debate About Confederate Flag

[Boiler 45,467]

It seems it is a good time to be a flag seller, sales have boomed.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It seems it is a good time to be a flag seller, sales have boomed.

Of course. It's the same crowd that's been hoarding guns and ammo the last several years.

[JohnR! 5,495]

And popular knowledge has it that members of this crowd are being born at the rate of one a minute! :rofl: :rofl:

Of course. It's the same crowd that's been hoarding guns and ammo the last several years.

[JohnR! 5,495]

In that case we should defer to them the option to remove it. It seems they are all for it and we shouldn't really get any pushback from the GnOP.

It shouldn't be too complicated considering that even the governor of SC wants it off government property.

It seems everyone agrees on this one.

Democrats placed the flag on the SC statehouse.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

And popular knowledge has it that members of this crowd are being born at the rate of one a minute! :rofl: :rofl:

I could have sworn that was the rate of them old geezers' demise.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Democrats placed the flag on the SC statehouse.

Ignorance will get you nowhere.

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http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/22/416548613/the-complicated-political-history-of-the-confederate-flag

Why is it flying at the Statehouse in Columbia, SC

The flag was first flown over the state Capitol dome (passed by the Democratic Legislature) in 1962 to mark the centennial of the start of the Civil War, but many saw it as a reaction to the civil-rights movement and school desegregation. For nearly four decades, it continued to be a controversial issue in the Palmetto State. A 1994 nonbinding referendum placed on the GOP primary ballot found that three-in-four voters said the flag should keep flying. That same year, black ministers and the NAACP threatened a boycott of the state if the flag didn't come down, and business leaders sued to remove the flag.

But in 2000, a compromise was reached the battle flag would be removed from atop the dome and a smaller, square version would be placed at a less-prominent place on the Statehouse grounds on a 20-foot pole next to the 30-foot Confederate monument. But that didn't end the controversy, and many years of protests, criticism and boycotts followed.

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