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“I don’t believe it represents racism because I’m not racist”. They brought their own flags to fly in the parking lot outside the building. However, the expanse of companies who apologized and re-evaluated their inclusion of the Confederate flag does not...

Afterwards, we shook hands as gentlemen, and we both walked away enriched by having our personal views challenged. It disagreed with the rules, law and governing bodies that were making decisions for our country as a whole. The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles had previously...

Or the flag that flew, despairingly as it turned out, over Fort Sumter in 1861 until it was captured and replaced, undoubtedly by the very flag that’s now the focus of so much debate.

Confederate flag hats, shirts, posters, underwear, etc. have suddenly experienced high demand as well.

Yesterday, many people came to get a final glimpse of the Statehouse flag.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Confederate flag was lowered from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse today, ending its 54-year presence there and marking a stunning political reversal in a state where many thought the rebel banner would fly indefinitely.

By The Associated Press on July 16, 2015.

“We didn’t have people getting out of hand – we had hugs”, Haley said of the flag’s lowering. “We have been dealing with nine funerals”. It’s one more thing these families are going to have to go through that they don’t...

“If the flag is removed and the sanctions are lifted, then we can bid for events, whether it’s a women’s regional championship or basketball for the men, the first or second rounds, and other events around the state“.

The flag was then taken to the Relic Room where it was taken in by curator Alan Robinson.

“It symbolizes our freedom, we want to show that not everybody who flies this flag are bad people”, said flag supporter David Croxton, “We just want to get along with everybody and we are here for a good cause”.

Debate over the flag came after a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston left nine dead and renewed questions over the meaning of the flag.

Now, the organizations that had imposed economic boycotts on South Carolina for flying the flag are reevaluating their stance on the state after its removal.

The June 17 massacre of nine African-Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, set off a national debate after images showed accused murderer Dylann Roof, 21, posing with the flag from the pro-slavery Southern states that tried to secede in the 1861-65 US Civil War.

For your efforts, you’ve won some salted meats, and a bottle of Rebel Yell, which you can share with the pro-Confederate flag protesters in period uniforms that braved triple-digit temps Friday to watch the flag come down.