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State NAACP President Edward Vaughn objects to having Mobile's Azalea Trail Maids as Alabama's only group in the upcoming presidential inaugural parade, saying they remind him of slavery days — a characterization that Trail Maids supporters decry. <br> <br> Vaughn said he thinks that Alabama will be a "laughingstock" at the Jan. 20 inauguration. He made his comments in a front-page Montgomery Advertiser story published Thursday. <br> <br> Vaughn suggested that the Trail Maids' costumes — hoop dresses with matching bonnets and parasols — reflect the state's slavery past and have no place at the inauguration...<br> http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/1231496158169400.xml&coll=3
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