The NAACP (web|news) is currently urging Hollywood to limit their film production here in South Carolina and is discouraging tourism in an effort to get the Confederate Flag removed from the statehouse grounds in Columbia.  The flag has been a polarizing symbol in the state for decades.

"I think anything that will discourage economics in South Carolina at this time is something we need to go at," said Charleston NAACP Chapter President Dot Scott.

"We just have a real issue because the flag does offend many African Americans," she added.

The flag has flown on the Soldiers Monument since 2000 after it was removed from the Capital's dome.  Still, opponents believe it should be removed from the grounds.

"I think if the state had the intent of doing the right thing we wouldn't even have this discussion," Scott said.

Senator Glenn McConnell has a drastically different view.

"The mainstream of South Carolina has moved on but they have not and it appears to me that they have been seduced by their power and emotion into a course of anger," McConnell said.

McConnell is frustrated that the NAACP would encourage any sort of economic slowdown.

"Anger has taken them on a mean spirited campaign because why would you try to inflict economic harm on people when they are already suffering because of the price of energy and other things," he said.

State lawmakers have no plans to revisit the flag issue.

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