South Carolina's Confederate flag is gone but other 'symbols of pain' are unlikely to vanish so soon
Confederate flag is banished in South Carolina after the Charleston massacre of nine people but other Civil War reminders are still common
The Confederate battle flag no longer flies at South Carolina's Statehouse and is now relegated to a room filled with other relics of the state's secession, but other vestiges of the Civil War-era South are unlikely to vanish so soon.
Several states have taken or are considering action to remove the flag and other Confederate symbols since the massacre of nine people at an African-American church in Charleston.
It has been banished from Alabama's Capitol and federal cemeteries, and Memphis officials are working to move the remains and a statue of slave trader and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest out of a prominent park.
Still, the region is full of monuments to key players in the Confederacy and even the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate flags remain a common sight on licence plates in the South, and the flag is a part of Mississippi's own state flag. Georgia's state flag is based on the national flag of the Confederacy known as the stars and bars.
The response in South Carolina and other states is encouraging after 15 years of no activity, but was prompted only by a "massacre", said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Centre. "We need a kind of mental cleansing down here. It's 150 years overdue."
Large numbers of flag supporters, who say it symbolises Southern heritage and history, remain.