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The Confederate Battle Flag is back in South Carolina… sort of
HotAir ^ | February 4, 2017 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 02/04/2017 5:40:44 PM PST by Trump20162020

In 2015, after a prolonged battle in the courts and the national media, the Confederate Battle Flag was lowered for the last time at a monument on state property in Columbia, South Carolina. At the time it was hailed as a glorious victory for the SJW and a very sad day for many southerners. Now, less than two years later a different version of the flag is back up again, but at a different location.

The Confederate battle flag is going back up at a monument in a northwestern South Carolina town.

Luther Lyle had maintained the memorial in Walhalla for years and had replaced the Confederate flag with a South Carolina flag in 2015, about the time the Confederate flag was taken down from the Statehouse following the Charleston church shootings.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; confederateflag; dixie; flag; kkk; klan; southcarolina
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To: DiogenesLamp

After her lying, being a no-show during the floods, and other controversies, I figure she would have lost.


21 posted on 02/05/2017 5:27:52 PM PST by apocalypto
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