Mueller. They chose to change there given family name so that they would seem less German and more American. In stark contrast it’s not at all unusual to drive through a street in Southern Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or California and seeing the flag of Mexico, proudly proclaiming the heritage of the residents. Even in the Deep South, where many people cite the most racism exists today in the United States. Places where the Ku Klux Klan still thrives or places where “hate crimes” are still very much a reality, there is progress being made. Since the times of the Civil War, Georgia has proudly displayed on their state flag a symbol of racism, the Confederate Flag. Many Georgians claimed that this was simply part of their heritage and important to them, while having nothing to do with racism. Nonetheless when legislation came up nothing short of a compromise would satisfy Georgia. Complete removal of the Confederate symbol was not an option that garnered much support. “‘I’m not 100 percent thrilled about [the compromise] myself, but we had to throw that in to give the rural white legislatures a sense of victory,’ Representative Tyrone Brooks, Democrat in Atlanta” (Firestone). In a similar situation, South Carolina, which was one of leading states in the Confederacy and one of the first states to succeed from the United States, was the place of a larger controversy and a place of more heated arguments. This place can be the held up as an example of where race and ethnic relations are in the United States. Only after strong pressure from action groups and from all over the United States was the Confederate flag removed from the Capitol building. However into this I have a unique insight, a family friend there stated that the real reason that the people fought so hard to keep the flag was not “heritage” but rather that racism really still exists very much.To further illustrate...
