The state of Georgia on Thursday sought to persuade the Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court decision that would force the state to let a Ku Klux Klan group “adopt” a stretch of north Georgia highway.

As states of the old Confederacy struggle anew with displays of divisive racial emblems in the wake of last month’s shooting that killed nine at an historic African-American church in Charleston, Georgia is fighting to prevent the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from adopting a stretch of state highway near Blairsville that would be identified with a state sign bearing the Klan name.

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