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A new pledge is developed as part of a campaign to sell flags to schools, to have a flag in every school

which is a mixture of a business opportunity and also an attempt to spread civic pride

by a school teacher, Francis Bellamy.

The 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus reaching the Americas also helps bolster this movement of pride.

Bellamy is a commitment of the National Education Association and he develops this new pledge.

I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the Republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Between 1888 and 1892, 26,000 schools by flags.

The pledge catches on.

You will notice there is no reference to God in that pledge that comes later in the 1950s by a presidential decree.

What Bellamy says is, the true reason for allegiance to the flag is the Republic for which it stands.

And what does that last thing, the Republic mean?

It is the concise political word for the nation, the one nation, which the Civil War was fought to prove.

To make that one nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches.

The census in the United States said that the United States has a population of 62.9 million people.

An increase of 25% since the 1880 census.

The Geographic Center of the U.S. population is now 20 miles east of Columbus, Indiana.

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