The Early Dean Response to Confederate Flag Controversy

"I want people with confederate flags on their trucks to put down those
flags and vote Democratic--because the need for quality healthcare, jobs,
and a good education knows no racial boundaries. We have working white
families in the south voting for tax cuts for the richest 1% while their
children remain with no health care. The dividing of working people by race
has been a cornerstone of Republican politics for the last three
decades--starting with Richard Nixon. For my fellow Democratic opponents to
sink to this level is really tragic. The only way we're going to beat
George Bush is if southern white working families and African American
working families come together under the Democratic tent, as they did under
FDR.

"In his historic 'I have a dream speech,' Martin Luther King, Jr., said: 'I
have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former
slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together
at a table of brotherhood.' I believe Dr. King's vision still represents
the future of America. And that is what our campaign is about."