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Republican Who Kept Confederate Flag Flying Is a Rebel Sympathizer

Johnny Reb

When he wasn’t dressed as a Southern rebel firing a cannon, South Carolina’s ex-senate president crafted the deal to keep the banner at his statehouse.

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Lou Krasky/AP

CHARLESTON — When the body of the slain Rev. Clementa Pinckey lies in state in the South Carolina Statehouse on Wednesday, it will be in the shadow of the Confederate flag that lawmakers

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