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‘Dukes of Hazzard’ General Lee with Confederate flag will stay in auto museum
Read full article: ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ General Lee with Confederate flag will stay in auto museumVOLO, Ill. – A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle. Statues of Confederate generals and soldiers are being taken down across the country, NASCAR has banned the flag from its races and the Confederate emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag. But the Volo Auto Museum about 50 miles northwest of Chicago says the famed “General Lee” from the first season of the TV show isn’t going anywhere, according to a weekend report in the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights. “We feel the car is part of history, and people love it,” museum director Brian Grams told the newspaper. “If we’re going to get complaints about the General Lee being here, we’ve got much worse items over in our military building,” he said.

