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The Confederate flag’s ongoing saga (SC)
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
BY JAMIE SELF
... If a commission tasked with deciding how to display the banner at the Confederate Relic Room proposes flying the flag again, Democratic legislators are prepared to fight, said state Rep. James Smith, D-Richland ...
But for Smith and other Democrats, flying the flag is out of the question. It was ordered “furled forever” by Gen. Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders, he said.
“A flying flag needs to be maintained and replaced. It continues to have a life,” Smith said. “I don’t understand why those who say they are for heritage don’t understand that. It is a flag of a lost cause” ...
http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article35047260.html