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The first national Confederate flag, spotted last week, flies in the city-owned Riverview Cemetery in Richmond’s West End.

The first national Confederate flag, spotted last week, flies in the city-owned Riverview Cemetery in Richmond’s West End.

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Why is it flying?

The Confederacy may have been defeated, but the flags of the rebels who fought to separate from the United States to keep black people in bondage still fly in city-owned cemeteries.