71.   Driving through rural South Georgia earlier this summer I saw Confederate flags sprouting like crab grass after a summer rain.

72.   Ethanol in Iowa, taxes in New Hampshire, the Confederate flag in South Carolina.

73.   Even the Confederate flag can be a souvenir.

74.   For years, South Carolina has been the only state to fly the Confederate flag over its Capitol.

75.   For my money, gun control, the Confederate flag and teacher tenure can take a back seat until road carnage is under control.

76.   Gallman predicted, as did King, that the South Carolina Legislature someday will succumb to pressure to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds altogether.

77.   George W. Bush and John McCain have planted themselves on the wrong side of the Confederate flag issue.

78.   Geraldine Washington, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP, said flying even the early version of the Confederate flag would be divisive.

79.   Harpootlian said the money that Clinton helped raise would go to Democratic state legislators who have been singled out by supporters of the Confederate flag.

80.   Hawkins earlier this week had arrived at a compromise with Cain when he offered to replace the Confederate flag with the Missouri Confederate battle flag.