Demand for Confederate flag rises after Charlottesville

Published August 24, 2017 6:03pm ET



The nation’s last producer of Confederate flags says it has seen an increased demand for the flags in the aftermath of the deadly Charlottesville protests.

Alabama Flag & Banner, based in Huntsville, Ala., began manufacturing the flags two years ago as retailers began pulling them off store shelves in the wake of a mass shooting at a Charleston, S.C. church that killed nine people. The killer had been photographed holding a Confederate flag.

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