At a ceremony filled with emotion, Mississippi’s governor signed legislation to bring down the only state flag ... to change the flag, to get this behind us.” Georgia politics is now roiled ...

ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its ... the southern United States was becoming a powderkeg, fueled by the battle ...

Like the flag that flew over Georgia before 1956, it will include the state seal on a blue field ... "This will finally, once and for all, get us over it." Yet when dealing with Civil War history ...

In late June, as many people across the United States ... state symbol of the Confederacy, it isn’t. The actual Confederate flag is almost identical to the current state flag of Georgia, and ...

Georgia legislators first dealt with the state's Confederate ... going to vote with us. He said we had the votes." In the morning, the rules committee had substitute flag legislation it quickly ...