How true. Remember this started with one flag over a state capitol, . . . .
But only when a Republican is in office. The South Carolina flap began only after a Republican got elected governor. Pressure to take the flag down materialized out of thin air. The Republican governor duteously removed the flag, at which point he was castigated by Democrats for destroying South Carolina heritage and subsequently voted out of office. The Democrat who replaced him put the flag back atop the capitol, and nothing else was said. At least not until the next Republican governor showed up. Suddenly, a new crisis was born. How could this racist Republican governor let another day pass with this flag flying over the capitol?
In essence, it is all complete BS. Fritz Hollings was the Democrat governor who put that flag up there to begin with. He did it purely for racist reasons - as a slap against integration. Yet no one ever calls the Democrats out for this. Georgia did the same thing, adding the battle flag banner after Brown v. Board of Education.
Of all the states, the only one that gets a free pass from me is Mississippi, because they adopted the battle flag banner back on Day One before we even had segregation.