Just one day after Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the Confederate flag flying over South Carolina’s state capitol, the Republican-controlled legislature has taken the first steps toward making that a reality. The South Carolina House agreed to take up the issue by a vote of 103 to 10.

After the slaying of nine black worshipers at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church, including the African-American state senator who served as the church’s pastor, some may have expected South Carolina to re-fight the Civil War.