“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

As it was when Winston Churchill spoke those words following the Battle of Britain, so it is today in Georgia.

The results of yesterday’s so-called referendum clearly shows the foolishness of compromise when that compromise is based on political correctness and not on fairness.

Less than 20% of Georgia’s active registered Voters voted in yesterday’s so-called referendum. 14% of the registered votes were for the Perdue flag while 5 % voted for the Barnes flag in the second lowest Presidential Primary turnout in 20 years. The turnout was well below the Secretary of State's projections of 26% active registered voters or 1,025,938.

To put it in hard numbers, approximately 585,000 individuals of a total State population of 8,560,000 have approved a State Flag for Georgia.

What a stunning repudiation of the politicians and chamber of commerce pundits. We all know that if the popular flag of the people, the 1956 State Flag, had been included in a fair vote on our State Flag, there would have been enormous public interest.

When 80% of Georgia’s active registered voters - express their displeasure over the politicians’ rigged referendum by refusing to participate, it is clear the Flag fight will not be over until the people get a fair vote which includes the 1956 State Flag as a choice.