Even before South Carolina’s lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from state capitol grounds, Texas lawyers, school leaders, and lawmakers had rebooted debates about stripping Confederate symbols from government properties in their state.
In South Carolina, the lawmakers’ vote to remove the Confederate flag followed a mass shooting four weeks earlier at a predominately black church, which left nine people dead. The fact that the shooter had posted photographs containing the Confederate battle flag revived questions about flying the Confederate colors at the state capitol.
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