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Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia is a wimp!! He bowed down to the darkies
and change the flag to leave out the Conferate part. Dam wimp. Right
now, we got a border-line racist in the White House, and he is packing
the courts. All Sonny had to do is wait. We are going to roll back all
the Civil Rights Shit, all the Voting Right Shit, and Roe vs Wade..
You watch.. Bush is packing the courts. And do be suprised if you
don't see BORK nominated to the Supreme Court.

And the Affirmative Action is going to be history.. It is a done
deal...

Brojack

http://www.msnbc.com/news/910979.asp?0dm=N24FN

The new Georgia state flag and the U.S. flag wave by Miss Liberty on
the Capitol in Atlanta.
 
Governor signs bill to replace Georgia's flag 
 
Dixie cross of stars removed 
 

ASSOCIATED PRESS 
 
 
 
      ATLANTA, May 8 �  Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill Thursday to
replace the unpopular 2-year-old state flag with a simpler design that
does not include a Confederate battle emblem.

         
       
 �I've never seen anybody flying it! You ever seen it on a boat? You
ever seen it at a football game? Nobody flies this thing!'
� GEORGIA REP. LARRY WALKER
         THE NEW FLAG, inspired by a national Confederate flag but
without the divisive Dixie cross of stars, was raised over the Capitol
for the first time shortly after the governor signed the bill.
       "The flag the General Assembly adopted honors Georgia's past,"
Perdue said before signing the bill. "It is also a flag that will
allow us to move forward together."
       The flag displays the state's coat of arms and the words "In
God We Trust" on a blue corner in the top left, with three
red-and-white stripes to the right.
       The 2001 flag was called a political masterstroke when it was
adopted, replacing a divisive banner dominated by the Confederate
battle cross.
       But the closing hours of Georgia's shortest-lived flag brought
little in the way of fond farewells. Even some of the architects of
the 2001 flag gave it a curt obituary.
       
NO "DREAM FLAG"
       "In no way am I sad that flag is being retired," joked Rep.
Tyrone Brooks, a black Atlanta Democrat who led the charge to adopt it
two years ago. "It's not exactly, you know, anybody's dream flag."
       The brief-flying state flag was a compromise intended to shrink
the Confederate emblem but incorporate the symbol in a mini-montage of
old Georgia flags.
       The result was what many considered a visual train wreck of
words, seals and stars.
       The flag was voted the nation's ugliest by a group of flag
experts just five months after it was adopted. Southern heritage
groups started calling it a "rag." Schoolchildren couldn't draw it.
Around the Capitol, it was commonly referred to as looking like a
place mat from a Denny's restaurant.
       As lawmakers wrangled for months over changing the state flag
this winter and spring, a rural Democrat summed up Georgia's
frustration with the 2001 banner.
       "I've never seen anybody flying it!" cried Rep. Larry Walker,
of Perry, south of Macon. "You ever seen it on a boat? You ever seen
it at a football game? Nobody flies this thing!"
       Georgia's latest flag saga started last summer, when a rural
Republican � Perdue � started talking about it in his underdog
campaign to oust Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes. His promise of a
statewide vote on the flag figured prominently in his surprise victory
in November.
       Perdue originally wanted a vote on the 1956 flag with its
dominant Dixie "X" � adopted by an all-white
 
         Legislature at the height of Southern resistance to
integration.
       But after months of arguing, lawmakers decided to quash any
chance of the Confederate emblem's revival and drew a new flag
instead. Perdue agreed to the compromise.
       Civil rights groups had threatened an economic boycott if
Georgia revived the Dixie cross, which many blacks lawmakers call a
symbol of oppression. Southern heritage advocates, on the other hand,
called the new flag a betrayal.
       
REFERENDUM NEXT YEAR
       Georgia voters will still get a referendum next year � to pick
between the new three-stripe flag and the 2001 flag. Few give the 2001
flag any chance to win.
       "It's a flag that Georgians didn't warm up to," said Merle
Black, a political scientist at Emory University. "They just didn't
embrace it. Very few people ever bought that flag except the ones that
had to, schools and so on."
       Perdue said he was not completely satisfied with the bill
because it did not give people a chance to vote on restoring the 1956
state flag.
       "While this bill does not include everything I asked for in my
plan, I will respect the decision of the elected representatives of
the people of Georgia," Perdue said.
       Even critics of the 2001 flag's design acknowledge that it
served its purpose as a transition piece that made the replacement of
the 1956 flag possible.
       And Barnes, whose official portrait in the Capitol shows him in
front of the 2001 flag, he has no regrets.
       "The important thing was to remove the Confederate emblem from
its position of prominence," said Bobby Kahn, Barnes' chief of staff.
"That was the important step. And we're still proud of that."