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		</div><p>South Carolina&#8217;s governor said the Confederate flag should be removed from the Statehouse grounds after the fatal shooting at a historic black church.</p>
<p>Republican Nikki Haley acknowledged that its use as a symbol of hatred by the man accused of killing nine black church members has made it too divisive to display in such a public space.</p>
<p>Her about-face comes just days after authorities charged Dylann Storm Roof, 21, with murder.</p>
<p>The young white man appeared in photos waving Confederate flags and burning or desecrating US flags, and purportedly wrote of stirring up racial violence.</p>
<p>Survivors told police he hurled racial insults during last Wednesday&#8217;s attack.</p>
<p>Ms Haley said: &#8220;The murderer now locked up in Charleston said he hoped his actions would start a race war.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have an opportunity to show that not only was he wrong, but that just the opposite is happening,&#8221; she said, flanked by Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites who joined her call.</p>
<p>&#8220;My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move our state forward in harmony, and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in Heaven,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>The massacre inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has suddenly made removing the flag &#8211; long thought politically impossible in South Carolina &#8211; the mainstream position, even for conservative Republican politicians.</p>
<p>Ms Haley was flanked by US Senator Lindsey Graham, now running for president, as well as South Carolina&#8217;s junior senator, Tim Scott, and Democratic US Representative Jim Clyburn, both of whom are black.</p>
<p>Within moments, her call was echoed by the chairman of the Republican National Committee and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.</p>
<p>The governor&#8217;s declarations sparked action in other arenas as well yesterday. Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn called for the Confederate emblem to be removed from the state flag, becoming the first top-tier Republican to do so.</p>
<p>In Tennessee, both Democrats and Republicans called for the removal of a bust of Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from an alcove outside the Senate&#8217;s chambers.</p>
<p>And Wal-Mart announced that it is removing any items from its store shelves and website that feature the Confederate flag.</p>
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