re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds

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I'm baffled why Gov. Wallace wanted a naval ensign flapping in the breeze on top of landlocked Montgomery. Was he a Navy man, by any chance?

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Because it's the flag that Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats had adopted as a symbol of their fight against integration.

A year later, Wallace gained infamy for his stand in the schoolhouse door.

Eighteen years after that, he was elected to a fourth non-consecutive term as governor (fifth, if you count his wife's term)and carried something like 40% of the black vote.

The guy would say anything to get votes, and it worked.