1.   A former top staffer for Sen. Zell Miller, who tried unsuccessfully to change the flag eight years ago as governor, summed it up succinctly.

2.   Activists have been trying for a dozen years to change the flag, but have been unsuccessful despite the support of Gov. Zell Miller.

3.   Brooks said civil rights leaders have been meeting with Georgia business leaders to discuss what could be done to change the flag.

4.   Changing the flag is one thing, but messing with such a time-honored staple of the Southern diet makes me nervous.

5.   Efforts to change the flag fizzled when former Gov. Zell Miller abandoned the fight to change the state flag.

6.   Efforts have begun in both states to change those flags in legislative sessions next year.

7.   Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, who supported changing the flag, said the referendum in April in which voters chose to keep the current flag settled the issue for now.

8.   I think he would change the flag.

9.   It became time for Georgia to embrace racial equality enthusiastically, not reluctantly, and changing the flag was the best way to communicate the sincerity of that change.

10.   People here are dimly aware that Georgia has changed its flag.