Walton County votes to replace Confederate flag with another (FL)
Steve Bousquet
Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:01pm
... As commissioners voted 4-0 to replace the rebel flag with a later version that depicts 13 white stars on a blue background and red and white horizontal bars, a burst of applause broke out in the hearing room. But flag opponents were angry at the result, and an NAACP leader, Dale Landry, raised the possibility of economic boycotts in South Walton County, a resort community that's a magnet for business conferences.
"It's a cop-out, not a compromise," said Daniel Uhlfelder, a Santa Rosa Beach lawyer and leader of local to the flag. "Nobody asked for this. It still represents slavery. It's not going to bring the community together."
Most people who testified at a meeting at the courthouse in DeFuniak Springs urged the county to remove the flag. They included African-American residents who recalled overt racial discrimination, Ku Klux Klan rallies and race riots when schools were desegregated in the late 1960s, as well as the descendants of Southern Civil War soldiers who fought in what at least one speaker called "the war of Northern aggression" ...
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their bigotry/racism in our faces. 
