[billbears]

I am constantly amazed how those who endlessly cry about "heritage" dismiss the idea of actually using the traditional state flag, as against school integration. federal intrusion into the internal workings of the separate and sovereign states

[lugsoul]

I think you need to research a little legislative history. Read the speeches. Read the editorials. You can spin it any way you like, but there is no doubt about the origin of the "protest" that resulted in the 1956 flag change. And it was directly linked to Brown. If you believe that states should be able to establish segregated school systems, then just say so. But don't pretend that the "state's right" that was being claimed by this symbolic protest was anything other than the right to do exactly that.