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Should the Confederate flag be banned from government buildings in the US?

That question is being asked by some of those protesting after last week鈥檚 Charleston church shooting.

"It鈥檚 an illegitimate symbol," said Prof Sarah Churchwell, professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia.

鈥淚t is a symbol of white supremacy from start to finish.鈥�

But Dr Tom Sebrell, an expert in the US Civil War and a lecturer at the University of Westminster, said that when the Confederate flag was removed from federal buildings in South Carolina 鈥渋t resulted in a lot more people flying the flag privately in their yards".