confederate

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“Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States,” Mayor Stoney said in a statement on Twitter after the statue was gone.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Warnock became Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from a former confederate state.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022

The first march I ever attended was a protest in January 2000, to bring down the confederate flag from the top of the South Carolina State House.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2022

For example, in the “door holding” experiment, a white or Black confederate followed students as they entered a campus building.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2021

As they walked down the hallway with their questionnaire, a man—a confederate of the experimenters—walked past them and pulled out a drawer in one of the filing cabinets.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell