The kaleidoscope features small images of five flags: the 1777 U.S. flag, the pre-1879 Georgia flag, the pre-1956 state flag, the former flag with the Confederate cross and the U.S. flag.

Everywhere I appeared in public after the flag change, I was greeted with protesters – almost exclusively older white men – waving Georgia’s 1956 flag and the Confederate battle emblem itself.

Georgia voters will still get a referendum next year — to pick between the new three-stripe flag and the 2001 flag. Few give the 2001 flag any chance to win. "It's a flag that Georgians didn't ...

They fear that if the decision is left up to the public, the Confederate battle flag (search) — sometimes called the "Southern Cross" — will once again be on Georgia's flag, as it was from ...

Now he says he understands why Perdue wanted a follow-up vote. When the flag was changed in 2001, the public was given no say. "This compromise gives everyone a voice," he said.