Country music acts quietly abandon Confederate flag

Friday, July 10, 2015

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Confederate flag was once a familiar symbol in country music, representing the rural South and the renegade spirit of artists such as David Allan Coe and Hank Williams Jr.

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