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In Georgia, loyalty to the flag is a “marker of identity,” said political scientist Charles Bullock ... He makes the predawn trips alongside his son, 30-year-old Rhett Ashley Coleman, ...
BLOOMINGDALE, Ga. – When Georgia retired its Confederate-dominated state flag two years ago, Ray Johnson refused to surrender the red-and-blue banner flying in his own front yard. Instead, he ...
The old Georgia state flag could be the only thing standing in the way of a new museum. Wick's Tavern is the oldest commercial building in Carroll County. Historians say it was once a gathering ...
Georgia voters will still get a referendum next year — to pick between the new three-stripe flag and the 2001 flag. Few give the 2001 flag any chance to win.
NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that six months after the Georgia legislature adopted a new state flag with a reduced confederate emblem, some people want to bring back the old flag. People in the town ...
After months of debating Georgia's flag, state lawmakers struck a surprise compromise Friday — an entirely new flag that echoes an old Confederate flag but does not include the divisive Dixie ...