Nikki Haley defended right to secession, Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in 2010 talk | CNN Politics

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley defended the right to secession, Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 talk

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local activist group that “fights attacks against Southern Culture.” Haley, who was running for South Carolina governor at the time, made the comments during an interview with the now defunct “The Palmetto Patriots,” a group which included a one-time board member of a White nationalist organization.

Following the backlash, Haley wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post defending her comments. “In South Carolina, as in much of the South, the Confederate flag has long been a hot-button issue,” Haley wrote. “Everyone knows the flag has always been a symbol of slavery, discrimination and hate for many people. But not everyone sees the flag that way. That’s hard for non-Southerners to understand, but it’s a fact.

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