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Article: Southern discomfort: taking aim at a costly symbol in South Carolina. (Confederate battle flag)
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- Newsweek
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- December 9, 1996
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OLD TIMES THERE ARE NOT forgotten, and that's posed more than one dilemma for the South in the 20th century. South Carolina's memory is sharper than most. Bronze stars in the granite walls of its statehouse still mark scars left by Union shells in 1865, when General Sherman torched the capital. So put yourself for a moment into the suddenly uncomfortable wingtipped shoes of Gov. David Beasley. Last week he went on statewide TV to make a remarkable appeal: South Carolina, the first state to secede in 1860 and the last to fly the Confederate battle flag from the dome of its statehouse, should now lower those colors. "Any banner we choose to fly over the capitol, where ...