The bill would allow states to claim the Confederate statues that are removed if they so choose.
(b) McCain claimed that the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina capitol symbolized "heritage," although he was on record as having called it "a symbol of racism and slavery".
Noah said that some people claim the fight over the Confederate statues is about "Southern culture and heritage," but Wood shut that argument down.
Claiming kin with the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston, the upper-middle-class Johnstons dwell in Myers Park, Charlotte's most exclusive neighborhood and our first hint that this Southern novel will take aim at Dixie's soft underbelly — the depredations of status and privilege.
Zimmerman and the store's owner both claimed that their Confederate flag enterprise had nothing to do with racism.
Pope claimed that the subsequent Confederate victory resulted from Porter's disobedience and misconduct.
In her book This Republic of Suffering, the Harvard historian Drew Gilpin Faust claims that Confederate sharpshooters prevented Union soldiers from retrieving the Native Guards' dead during a truce that was arranged for that purpose the next day.
The Confederate press claimed a victory on a hard-fought field, but the losses were heavy and Johnston was killed.
He might want to talk to some of the adults-in-age-only in his party, like Representative Lynn Westmoreland, of Georgia, who claimed that the flag honored ordinary Confederate soldiers, the majority of whom, he said, "were people that were fighting for their states, and, you know, I don't think they even had any thoughts about slavery".
Soon those fans still waving the Confederate flag and claiming a phony innocence will have to move away too or find themselves on the fringe of a society that has already deemed the flag a hateful relic.
