How Other Southern States' Flags Also Evoke the Confederacy. Comes amid outcry over the flying of the Confederate flag in South Carolina. By ABC News. June 22, 2015, 2:44 PM. 2:17.

But in at least five other Southern states, symbols of the old Confederacy form part of the state flags themselves. Alabama state flag Encyclopaedia Britannica / UIG via Getty Images Alabama ...

Defenders of the flag say it's a symbol of Southern heritage.Detractors maintain that hatred and racism are an inextricable part of that heritage.With all the focus on South Carolina, it's easy to ...

Last week, Biloxi, Miss. became the latest Southern city to order the removal of a state flag containing the Confederate Army emblem from the city’s public properties. According to the Sun ...

It was never the official flag of the Confederacy. But the battle flag has since been claimed by white supremacists and mythologized by others as an emblem of a rebellious Southern heritage.

Flags to be raised to full-staff for Inauguration Day in Florida, other Southern states, Capitol C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida Updated Wed, January 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM UTC ...

Other southern states still hang flags born from the same racist origin. Georgia’s state flag was changed to Confederate battle flag after Brown v Board of Education to show intentional ...

Following other Southern state governors, Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday announced that U.S. and state flags across the state – now at half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter – will ...

Minnesotans sound off on finalists for new state flag 01:54. Two panelists from southern Minnesota noted that loons aren't present in that part of the state and pushed back on making the bird the ...