Confederate flag battle in Panhandle pits North against South (FL)
Steve Bousque
Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Monday, July 27, 2015 11:29am
... Walton is bordered by Alabama on the north and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and the rebel flag has fluttered on the grounds of a Civil War memorial on the lawn of the Walton County Courthouse since 1964 — the same year President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act ...
"It's a divisive symbol that doesn't belong on the courthouse grounds. It was immediately offensive to me. We're the last courthouse in Florida that has a flag on the grounds" ...
The county commission meets at 9 a.m. central time on Tuesday. "There's going to be a lot of pressure on them," says Jim Anders, a long-time Walton resident, vice-chairman of the local Republican Party and a flag opponent. "I'm from the Panhandle and I do understand our heritage. But it needs to be taken down" ...
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