The flag of the State of Potomac (formerly known as Washington, D.C.) since 1938. The flag is based on the coat of arms of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. This flag would be later adopted by Washington, D.C. after a decade of lobbying from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and was kept when the city became Potomac.
As with every other U.S. state and territory, Potomac’s flag can be found flying in many public buildings including the Potomac State House in Columbia Heights as well as the patches, logos and colors of local sports teams such as the MLB’s Washington Senators[1] and the NHL’s Washington Capitals[2].
An equestrian statue of American Civil War Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, located in the city’s historic Monument Avenue since 1890[3].
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, otherwise known as Mother Emanuel, a historic African-American Baptist congregation that is part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Mother Emanuel was established in Charleston, South Carolina in 1816 with the modern incarnation of the church re-established after the American Civil War in 1865. Throughout it’s history, the church has served as the gathering place for free and enslaved African-Americans from the antebellum South and Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement and continues to serve as one for African-Americans to this day. Notably, South Carolina native Jesse Jackson (D-SC) visited Mother Emanuel multiple times during his tenure as Governor and President of the United States respectively most notably a visit to the church when it was vandalized with anti-black graffiti after his victory in 2000[4] and a 2004 speech for re-election.
As of 1989, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) is part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for South Carolina[5].
Notes:
[1] As noted in the Main KFP Thread, Major League Baseball (MLB) returned to Washington, D.C./Potomac much sooner than it did IOTL with the third incarnation of the Washington Senators established in 1977 as part of the league’s four-team expansion alongside the likes of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays. For the purposes of record keeping, the MLB considers the current Senators team to be the same as the first and second incarnations who are now officially the expansion teams known as the Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers respectively with the unified Senators recorded as having a brief period of inactivity from 1972-1976 similar to how the current Cleveland Browns are seen as the same team from 1946-1995 which relocated to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens in our world but are treated as a separate team while the Browns were inactive from 1996-1998 before returning in 1999.
[2] Even with much of Washington, D.C. becoming the State of Potomac, the abbreviated pre-statehood federal district name is still used to refer to the state as much as the current federal district adjacent to it by not just some people but it’s sports teams as well despite not playing in the District of Columbia proper.
[3] A major consequence of the Charleston church shooting not happening in KFP due to Dylann Roof’s unceremonious death and terrorism being less prevalent since the 1990s is the lack of an organized anti-monument and anti-memorial movement directed at specific figures that emerged from it. This movement got its start with the shooting which led to the removal of the Confederate battle flag from Columbia's South Carolina State House in July 2015 causing monuments or memorials to be violently toppled by demonstrators, removed by entire cities and places like schools or buildings renamed in not just the United States but other countries like Canada, Britain, Belgium, France, Mexico, and New Zealand which escalated further with the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and especially the death of George Floyd in 2020 which included the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia. Even before or after some of these events, there were already such violent topplings or removals such as Silent Sam and William McKinley in the U.S. or Edward Cornwallis in Canada between 2018-2019.
Keep in mind that these monuments and memorials to specific figures were never really much of an issue before nor was there any serious attempt or pressure to remove them until after Charleston and while there were a few renamings or removals primarily in the U.S. such as Arkansas replacing a Confederate officer with Helen Keller in the National Statuary Hall in 2009 or Memphis changing the names of three Confederate-themed parks in 2013, these were small-scale, minor and isolated from each other that they didn’t really spread over to most American municipalities or countries for that matter. Since Charleston was already butterflied, the trend of demonstrators toppling such monuments, cities / states / countries removing monuments or places renamed don't exist here which means that with a few exceptions, many of the ones dedicated to specific figures stay up well into the 2020s which includes the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond.
[4] Suffice it to say, there won’t be any racially-motivated mass shootings targeting Mother Emanuel anytime soon with stricter gun control and terrorism less frequent apart from vandalism.
[5] IOTL, the church wasn’t part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places until 2018. It happens much sooner here due to the influence of Jesse Jackson during his first term as Governor of South Carolina.
