A Tennessee county voted 20-1 against raising the Confederate flag above the county’s courthouse, NBC station WBIR reported.
The Greene County courthouse houses a Civil War monument.
The proposal to fly the flag was sponsored by Commissioner James Randolph, who claimed the flag is part of Tennessee history and is an important part of Greene County’s past.
But historians disagree, saying the county was a bastion of pro-Union support during the Civil War.
