11.   Holmes, known to stir up racial politics in the state House, helped get the Confederate flag removed from the Alabama Capitol.

12.   If the General Assembly refuses to remove the flag, Brooks and other political and civil rights leaders vow to push an economic boycott of Georgia.

13.   In South Carolina, resentment simmers four months after the Confederate flag was removed from the statehouse dome.

14.   More than half of Texans polled said they disapprove of removing Confederate flags, seals and monuments from most public places.

15.   Navarro-Valls said that the pope had also refused a demand from the official Chinese church that the Taiwanese flag be removed from the Youth Day celebrations.

16.   New York Gov. George Pataki not long ago removed the flag of another southern state from the Albany Capitol because it contained a confederate symbol.

17.   Other states have gradually removed the flag from their Capitol domes.

18.   Recent polls show that most South Carolinians want the flag removed.

19.   Repeated legislative efforts to remove the flag have failed.

20.   Ridge endorsed removing the flag.