White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

by Robert P. Jones

in 1956, two years after the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling that ordered public schools must be desegregated, the legislature replaced the more subtle red and white horizontal bars with a full version of the Confederate battle flag to the right of the blue canton. This flag flew until 2001, when Governor Roy Barnes led a move to replace it with a new flag containing a large state seal in the center on a field of blue, with a small homage to the previous state flags, flanked by two American flags, embedded in a narrow ribbon below the seal. This shift away from Confederate symbols was short-lived, however. In a 2004 referendum, voters approved by a margin of three to one a new design that even more closely resembles the Stars and Bars than the original pre-1956 flag, featuring, for example, a circle of thirteen stars that represent the states of the Confederacy.47

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