A row has erupted in Virginia over a proposal to fly a huge Confederate flag outside the state capital, Richmond.
Recently, there's been a row in Texas over car licence plates bearing the flag, a man arrested after shouting abuse while waving it at a country music concert, and the ongoing fallout from South Carolina flying the flag in front of the State House.
BBC News - Why do people still fly the Confederate flag
The flag is commonly seen at Nascar races
The flag wasn't a major symbol until the Civil Rights movement began to take shape in the 1950s, says Bill Ferris, founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, It was a battle flag relegated to history but the Ku Klux Klan and others who resisted desegregation turned to the flag as a symbol.
South Carolina State House, "daily".
Two sides of a clever T-shirt put out by, well, guess. No, not THAT "guess".
Republicans on the USMB are always calling me a liar. Sorry guys, you have to "PROVE" it's a lie.