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The New Civil War - IceWizard - 07-27-2015
You can be forgiven if you thought that the fight over the Confederate battle flag had subsided when the stars and bars fluttered down outside the South Carolina statehouse for the final time earlier this month.
The odious symbol of both the Confederacy and Jim Crow retiring in the very state where the Civil War began – and doing so under the leadership of a Republican governor – might lead some to think that it is finally on a course for the dustbin of history. And it might well be, but not before the U.S. Congress takes another whack at the fight.
Call it the new Civil War, same as the old culture war. Indeed, between the flag debate and percolating fights over the permissibility of firing people because of their sexuality or even their (unmarried) heterosexual activities, the Congress seems intent on continuing the culture war fights.
[READ:The GOP's Flag Conundrum]
Start with the Confederate flag. At around the
same time that South Carolina state legislators
were voting to bring it down in Charleston, U.S.
House "Democrats offered amendments to an
appropriations bill to block the laying of
Confederate flags at federal cemeteries and to ban them from gift shops and concession
stands," as the[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/us/politics/bipartisan-debate-falters-over-removal-of-confederate-battle-flag-from-federal-land.html?emc=eta1