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  • Voters salute current flag (Georgia-GOP Purdue wins, Dem Barnes loses)

    03/03/2004 10:20:47 AM PST · by Diddle E. Squat · 51 replies · 1,554+ views
    Black and white voters across Georgia finally have a flag they can agree on. The state's current banner, modeled after the first national flag of the Confederacy, won by a nearly 4-1 ratio Tuesday over its sole rival, a blue-and-gold banner that flew briefly over Georgia from 2001 until last year. "I had heard," said Christy Myrick, 35, of Atlanta, "that if [the current] flag is chosen there won't be any more discussion and it will be over, finally." That's the pitch top Georgia politicians and business leaders had made to voters in advertising and campaign calls in the days...