31.   Friday dawned and ebbed with no sign the great and angry debate over the future of the state flag would soon abate.

32.   Georgia legislators earlier this year reduced the prominence of the Confederate battle emblem on that state flag.

33.   Georgia reduced the size of the emblem in the state flag.

34.   Georgia is the only other state that uses the Confederate battle emblem in its state flag.

35.   Had I been eligible to vote in Mississippi, I would have cast a ballot for the redesigned state flag.

36.   Gov. George Pataki, who served in the Assembly with Ms. Dugan, ordered state flags to be flown at half-staff in her memory.

37.   He came to bear witness that, indeed, the old state flag had been designed, at least in part, with racist motives.

38.   Have you been tempted to speak out on local controversies, such as the state flag?

39.   He dropped his campaign to remove the confederate battle emblem from the state flag when political support vanished.

40.   He won national notice by orchestrating a stealthy compromise that minimized the Confederate battle emblem that had dominated the state flag.