Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry narrowly votes to ban controversial confederate flag
Members of the popular country music club voted by 50 to 48 to uphold a ban on the use of the flag in the venue.
Many southern slave-owning states used the flag during the American civil war in the 1860’s and the flag can be seen as both a patriotic display of southern heritage and a racist symbol.
The Grand Ole Opry would hold a flag-folding ceremony – called the American trilogy – at the end of every night, which the club claimed was in memory of the 620,000 Americans who died in the war between 1861 and 1865.
The Club’s website added: “As the Southern states lost the war, and due to the fact that this part of America supplied us then, as now, with most of the trends that influence our music, dress and dance, it is the Southern flag (often called the Confederate Battle flag) which is folded.
“We dedicate the American Trilogy as a salute in memory of all those men and women lost from both sides.”
However, following the results of the vote the American trilogy will no longer be seen on Glasgow’s South Side.
