The Confederate flag didn't fly over the South Carolinian State House until the 1960s...

[YoungDemCA]

Nearly 100 years after the beginning of the Civil War, in the late 1950s, the South Carolina Senate put the Confederate Battle Flag in its chamber, and the legislature created a Confederate War Centennial Commission. Over the next few years there were a number of celebrations, most of which had little impact in the state. But as part of the celebration, the legislature passed a resolution to fly the flag on the dome of the State House in 1962. As one former legislator noted years later, “We did it to celebrate, not to divide the state.” But as another remarked, it was a different day. “White politicians only had to please white people, and the majority was plainly behind the system of segregation” (Eichel “Flag-raising,” 1999, A1, 9). In any case, the flag remained on the dome for nearly 40 years (Edgar 1998, 538). The flag that flew for so long on top of the State House was actually the naval jack, one of several flags used by the Confederacy.

http://www.usca.edu/aasc/Flag.htm

Now, what else was happening in the 1960s in the South, besides Civil War centennial celebrations?? Hmm.....

[Skittles]

1. 1A! We can't do anything about that flag!

2A! We can't do anything about the guns either!!!

I am sure he will be here shortly to explain why things are fucked but HEY, we can't do anything about it!

[safeinOhio]

2. Stop visiting the state until it comes down,

cut those tourist dollars in half and it'll be down in no time.

[truebluegreen]

3. Just a total coincidence.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. And Ronald Reagan committed the incredibly sick act of appearing in Philadelphia

Mississippi to launch his 1980 campaign as GOP nominee. Philadelphia was a tiny town of only about 5,000 and had no significance except as a holy shrine of the Ku Klux Klan in the south as the scene where the three civil rights workers, a black man, a Jew and a white man were murdered. Yet Reagan continues to be referenced with reverence and the confederate flag continues to be flown. Ronald Reagan and that flag continue to get respect, signs of deep psychopathy.