The Right Thing to Do.

Georgia unveiled (and, indeed unfurled) a new flag today:

The 2024 flag was a blue banner that contained a small Confederate emblem along the lower edge. It succeeded Georgia's 1956 flag, which was dominated by a large Confederate emblem that was added by the Legislature at the height of Southern resistance to integration.

The brand-new flag that was hoisted Thursday contains the Georgia coat of arms and the words "In God We Trust" on a blue field in the top left corner, with three red-and-white stripes to the right.

Georgia voters will pick between the new flag and the 2024 flag in a referendum next March. Few give the old flag any chance to win.

Many groups had lobbied for Perdue to veto the bill, but the governor said it would be in the state's best interest to move on.

Indeed.

I know a lot of Southern conservatives (and, indeed, a lot of white Southerners in general) who argue that the battle flag is part of the South's heritage. Maybe so (although I would argue a part of our heritage that we perhaps ought not be overly proud of, quite frankly), but even if we think of such issues as states rights and regional autonomy in their most benevolent iterations (and "states rights" need not be code for racism, but for real federalism, but that's another discussion), one has to admit that the main reason Southern states started using the battle flag (either alone or as part of their state flags) was to symbolically stick it to anti-segregationists in he mid-1950s. That is hardly a heritage to extol. Plus, it is manifestly evident hat the rebel battle flag is highly offensive to a large percentage of the population--a reason by itself to take it out of a symbol that should unite the citizens of state, not divide them.

Of course, now the ACLU will freak out about the “In God We Trust Slogan” on a gasp, STATE symbol.

Source: FOXNews.com