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'Dukes of Hazzard' Car With Confederate Flag to Remain on Display in Auto Museum

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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 (80 kilometers) northwest of Chicago says the famed "General Lee" rom the first season of the TV show isn’t going anywhere, according to aweekend reportin the Crystal Lake-based Northwest Herald. "We feel the car is part of history, and people love it," museum director Brian Grams told the newspaper.

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