By WILL WEISSERT,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)
Eleven years ago,
when the NAACP
stepped up a
campaign to remove
the Confederate
battle flag f
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By WILL WEISSERT, ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Eleven years ago, when the NAACP stepped up a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses and other government buildings across the South, it found an opponent in Rick Perry. Texas had a pair of bronze plaques with symbols of the Confederacy displayed in its state Supreme Court building.