constitutional right to choose one’s associates; to accept private employment without
governmental interference, and to earn one’s living in any lawful way. We oppose the
elimination of segregation, the repeal of miscegenation statutes, the control of private
employment by Federal bureaucrats called for by the misnamed civil rights program.”
“Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party, August 14 , 1948 ,” The American
Presidency Project, available at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid= 25851 #
axzz 1 iGn 93 BZz, accessed April 28 , 2014.10 In fact, it was in the 1950 s ... Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina all began to fly the
Confederate battle flag in symbolic opposition to the Brown decision. James Forman Jr.,
“Driving Dixie Down: Removing the Confederate Flag from Southern State Capitols,” Yale
Law Journal 101 ( 1991 ): 505.