41.   A short walk from the university is the state Capitol, which, as of last July, no longer flies the Confederate flag from its dome.

42.   A rambling handwritten death threat against state Sen. Darrell Jackson, a Confederate flag opponent, spurred emotional pleas in the Senate Tuesday for compromise over the flag.

43.   African-Americans, backed by religious leaders, urged the state to take down the last Confederate flag that flies over a state capitol.

44.   Bush also angered many African Americans when he refused to enter the fray over removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.

45.   Bush, during the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, said the Confederate flag was a matter for South Carolinians alone to decide.

46.   But a second has decided that the tactics of the union organizers, who have burned a Confederate flag and taunted the Klan as cowards, are madness.

47.   But emotionally, the Confederate flag evokes in me both pain and anger, whatever the intent of the bearer.

48.   But on the question of taking the Confederate flag down from the state Capitol dome, the most outspoken opponents were from the Lowcountry.

49.   But speaker after speaker denounced the Confederate flag as an insulting relic that demands immediate attention.

50.   But the Confederate flag remains the main lightning rod of controversy.