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Texas DMV Considers Issuing Confederate Flag License Plate

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Gus10/22/2011 11:27:04 pm PDT

My point is. Even if you got rid of this license plate it wouldn’t make much difference.

Teen murder suspect carried ‘backpack of hatred’

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Brandon, Mississippi (CNN) — To get to Brandon, you have to drive across the Pearl River, a boundary that seems to separate black Mississippi from white.

In the town’s center, a monument stands honoring the confederate soldiers who fought in the Civil War.

This mostly white town in mostly white Rankin County is about a 30-minute drive from Jackson, Mississippi. It’s here in Brandon that some residents say a gang of teenagers expressed their strong racial prejudice — sometimes through violence