This movement against the Confederate flag has grown so big that opponents are now after all things connected with the effort to start a new nation back in the 1860s.
These are headlines taken from my Yahoo and Google Alerts.
The Confederate flag debate has reached Congress. There is a House of Representatives resolution requiring the removal of any state flag at the Capitol which features part of the Confederate flag.
North Carolina is sorting out how to end its Sons of Confederate Veterans license plates.
Southern states are distancing themselves from the Confederate flag. (These last two really hurt me. I can see if a Northern state does this, but not one of the former Confederate ones.)
Film maker Ken Burns says the Confederate flag is not about history, but resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. (I would say he was right about the flag being a part of the resistance to Civil Rights, but how could he, of all people, say it is not about history? He sure made a lot of money in his Civil War films and they featured the flag at points.)
Only one 2016 Presidential hopeful is defending the flag. Jim Webb, former Virginia senator already had only the smallest of chances of winning the Democratic nomination. Now there is no chance.
--Old Secesh
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