Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minn., is banning the display of flags on vehicles of kids who drive to school starting on Monday. Read more →
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Tag: Confederate flag

Yoga pants and visible hickeys are specifically banned in a lot of South Dakota schools but students with Confederate flag T-shirts might get away with it. Read more →

School officials in the Crosby-Ironton school district reportedly have threatened to withhold the diploma of a senior because he showed up at school yesterday with a Confederate flag attached to his car.
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When is a Confederate flag not offensive? When it’s a memorial to a family member and friend who liked the Dukes of Hazzard, according to a Minnesota school district. Read more →
Not to worry, Confederate flags fans. There are still plenty of ways to honor racism and segregation and all that ‘history’ and ‘heritage.’
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Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum is getting some national press today for being on the ball and catching the late-night Republican shenanigans that sought to undo a ban on the Confederate flag at federal cemeteries. Read more →
A Confederate flag was lowered in South Carolina today and a few outcasts will insist history is being forgotten. You know who was actually forgotten? Charles Schroeter, a Medal of Honor recipient for actions in the Union army in October 1869, while serving with Company G, 8th U.S. Cavalry in Arizona Territory. Read more →
This time it’s Erhard, Minn., south of Pelican Rapids, Minn., where someone thought a Confederate flag in the Fourth of July parade was the perfect way to promote the local NAPA auto parts store. Read more →

The man who drove a fire truck festooned with the Confederate flag at a parade in Albert Lea has defended his display in a common manner.
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I was wondering whether a long simmering Minnesota controversy would reignite in the wake of the focus on the Confederate flag. It happened today. Read more →
Wade Yarbrough, of Apple Valley, waded into hostile territory in today’s Star Tribune with his op-ed urging restraint in judging people who fly the Confederate flag.
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The defenders of the Confederate flag who have insisted that it represents only pride in history are proving that it doesn’t.
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