When The Observer moved to Arkansas from another Southern city only a state away, one of the first things I noticed was the giant state flag flying from several posts around Little Rock. Why does that big flapping thing look so much like the Confederate battle flag? I asked myself. The white stars encased in strips of blue, the color scheme — it was all a bit too familiar.

Given the South’s history (and present realities when it comes to who dominates politics across most of the region — a group in Lawrence County is currently at work on a whites-only enclave , after all), I expected a quick Google search to confirm my suspicions. Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland — even California, the state many conservatives point to as the bastion of out-of-control liberalism — all have s

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