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Time9y
This Is Why South Carolina Raised the Confederate Flag in the First Place
On Monday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley ... “The Confederate flag symbolizes more than the civil war and the slavery era,” wrote James Forman Jr. a professor at Yale Law ...
Talking Points Memo9y
How The South Lost The War But Won The Narrative
Most flag defenders, however ... About 20 percent of white Southern males of military age died in the Civil War. In South Carolina the toll was even higher, and thousands more were left maimed ...
The Washington Post9y
Why is the Confederate flag still a thing even though the South lost the Civil War?
The nationalists who lost China's civil war in 1949 fled to Taiwan and set up their own country, taking their flag with them.Watson says he still sees South Vietnam's flag flying in several parts ...
Post and Courier1y
Discovered: A rare Civil War flag tied to Charleston. Too bad it's probably a fake.
“I decided it had to go home, it had to go to South Carolina, there was no question in my mind at all,” he said. “Probably it could bring a couple thousand dollars, but Civil War flags mean ...
Post and Courier1mon
The Union flew the white flag of surrender at Fort Sumter. Now it's up for auction in Greenville.
Assuming their authenticity, the Civil War artifacts are pieces of a history ... He said he hopes the flag remains in South Carolina, ideally in a museum. “It's unbelievable that it still ...