Why business fought the Confederate flag
By MJ Lee, CNN Politics and Finance Reporter
Updated 4:26 PM ET, Wed June 24, 2015
It happened in a matter of days.
In South Carolina, the governor called for the Confederate flag to stop flying over the capitol. The governors of Virginia and North Carolina quickly declared that they would remove the flag from state license plates. Meanwhile, several of the country's top retailers -- from Walmart to eBay and Amazon -- announced in quick succession that they would stop selling Confederate flag merchandise ...
The recent skirmishes demonstrate how business leaders in deep-red states, where conservative Republicans control most or all the levers of power, often emerge as checks on elected officials who lean strongly to the right.
"What you are seeing is a broad, acknowledgment across both the consumer, the political and the business community that that particular emblem is no longer part of something that should be a state-issued emblem," Kentucky-based GOP strategist Scott Jennings said of the Confederate flag debate. "To execute change in this country, that kind of convergence matters" ...
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