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In June 2020, shortly after NASCAR announced that it would be ban the display of Confederate flags at future events, we were alerted to a story concerning the late racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s attitude toward the southern symbol: This story truly originates with one of Earnhardt's children. However, it actually came from Earnhardt's daughter, Kelley, not his son, Dale Jr. The anecdote can be heard in an April 2015 episode of the Fast Lane Family podcast. The episode featured a Q&A with Kelley Earnhardt Miller about her father on what would have been his 64th birthday. She prefaced the story by saying that it was a good example of her dad's heart and how he cared for people. She said: She tells this story around the 24:30 mark of the following audio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-fast-lane-family-dirty-mo-31085378/episode/50-ask-kelley-dale-sr-41670893/ A few months after the episode aired, Dale Earnhardt Jr., also a famous race-car driver, said he, too, was against the display of the Confederate flag. At the time, in June 2015, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state house, and NASCAR had endorsed that position. Earnhardt Jr. said:
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