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struggle4progress

(118,356 posts)
Sat Jul 25, 2015, 03:04 PM Jul 2015

Can The South Carolina GOP Get Rid Of Its Confederate Ghosts?

JULY 25, 2015 8:03 AM ET
JESSICA TAYLOR

... "I don't think they should have taken it down. I think it's a symbol of state's rights, and I think that's an important issue that's being trampled today," Paul Jordan said at a campaign stop in North Charleston for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ...

Leona Crouch of Greenville admitted it was probably time for the flag to go but ..."It's been an issue for several years, and I personally don't understand why it's an issue and I don't understand how people consider it racial" ...

The good news for Republicans: the South Carolina House speaker has said the legislature won't take up changing any other public Civil War memorials, monuments and the like ...


http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/25/426052621/can-the-south-carolina-gop-get-rid-of-its-confederate-ghosts

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Can The South Carolina GOP Get Rid Of Its Confederate Ghosts? (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP
Headline needs fixing. tazkcmo Jul 2015 #1
They'd have to want to do it, and evidently they don't. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2015 #2

tazkcmo

(7,302 posts)
1. Headline needs fixing.
Sat Jul 25, 2015, 03:08 PM
Jul 2015

Does The South Carolina GOP Really Want To Get Rid Of Its Confederate Ghosts?

Now to bill NPR for my time...

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