The issue over whether South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol has been front and center since last month's mass shooting in Charleston.
Amidst national controversy over the Confederate Flag and the role of the Confederacy in slavery, new Texas social studies text books are actively downplaying the role of slavery in the Civil War.
The debate over whether the Confederate flag should be removed from official offices in the South has become a hot button issue in the wake of the the mass church shooting in South Carolina.