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Article: Conflicts over Confederate symbols complex and persistent.
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- Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2006
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Byline: Tony Gabriele
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ One hundred and forty-one years have passed since it last flew over an army in the field, but still it waves _ over gravesites, on bumper stickers, and on T-shirts and beach towels.
The Confederate battle flag still stirs passions _ reverence in some, fear and loathing in others.
And it continues to intrude into politics, notably in U.S. Sen. George Allen's re-election campaign. Allen, R-Va., has been dogged by tales of how he wore a Confederate flag pin and hung the flag in his home and elsewhere in his earlier days. When Allen tried to distance himself last month from those Confederate sympathies, he ...