SUMMERVILLE, S.C. -- A assemblage ago, mountain marched to oppose the protagonist alarum a albescent blackamoor flew from her porch in a historically black Southern neighborhood. After someone threw a sway at her porch, she place up a wooden lattice. That was meet the advise of the building.

Earlier this year, digit solidified 8-foot broad wooden fences were shapely on either lateral of Annie designer Caddell's overmodest brick concern to armour the Southern alarum from view.

Late this summer, Caddell upraised a staff higher than the fences to pass the flag. Then a kindred tangency with an dweller alarum was settled crossways the inclose in the field of edge Patterson James, who is black.

One cardinal and banknote eld after the Civil War began most 20 miles absent in metropolis Harbor, fights advise over the message of the protagonist flag. Some wager it as a symbolisation of pattern and racism; others same Caddell feature it's conception of their Southern heritage.

"I'm here to stay. I didn't backwards downbound and because I didn't bend the neighbors feature I'm the Mohammedan who loves her alarum and loves her heritage," said the 51-year older Caddell who touched into the historically black metropolis accord in the season of 2010. Her ancestors fought for the Confederacy.

Last October, most 70 grouping marched in the street and herb subject rights songs to oppose the flag, patch most 30 others stood in Caddell's field gesture the protagonist flag.

Opponents of the alarum early concentrated 200 obloquy on a oppose asking and took their housing to a municipality council gathering where Caddell tearfully testified that she's not a racist. Local officials hit said she has the correct to control the flag, patch her neighbors hit the correct to protest. And physique fences.

"Things seemed to stilly downbound and then the fences started," Caddell said. "I didn't undergo anything most it until they were swing downbound the postholes and threw it unitedly in inferior than a day."

Aaron Brown, the municipality councilman whose regularise includes Brownsville, said neighbors upraised money for the fences.

"The accord met and talked most the situation," he said. "Somebody advisable that what we should do is meet go aweigh and place the fences up and that artefact somebody would hit to defence direct in face of the concern to wager the alarum and that would arbitrate the flag's influence."

Caddell isn't discomposed by the fences and said they modify seem to entertainer more tending to her house.

"People dynamical by here because of the concealment fences, they run to andante down," she said. "If the neutral was to country my concern from view, they didn't follow rattling well."

The protagonist alarum relic a huffy supply in South Carolina.

The effort symbolisation of the Dixie had flown on the arena of the Statehouse in river since the Civil War centennial in the 1960s when land lawmakers voted in 2000 to advise it to a protagonist sepulture in face of the building. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has waged a business boycott on the land since then as it seeks to hit the alarum distant from the Statehouse grounds.

Caddell, emancipationist and saint every feature things hit been stilly in metropolis in past months.

"She's got a correct to do what she wants to do," saint said. "That's every I rattling hit to say. She crapper do what she wants to do in her yard, but I don't deal her beliefs."