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Confederate Flags Are Falling, But What Will That Change?
Southern cities are lowering the flags and considering bringing down Confederate memorials, too. But the character of a city is harder to transform.
Today, 150 years after the Confederate Army was defeated in its fight to preserve slavery, the flags and memorials honoring that great Lost Cause are finally coming down in cities across the South.
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley had the Confederate flag, in all of its variations, removed from state Capitol grounds today. Bentley told a reporter that his decision on this came partly in response to the tragic Charleston killings last week. And also because, as he told a news reporter: