COLUMBIA, S.C. -- After the NAACP announced this week it will push to remove Confederate flags from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, another organization has vowed to raise the Confederate flag all across the state.

Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Don Gordon said each time the civil rights organization complains, the Sons of Confederate Veterans will put up a new flag.

Gordon said his group is negotiating with a landowner to raise a large flag atop a pole along a Midlands interstate highway. He would not give details.

He said the group hopes to add other large flagpoles to interstates across the state so drivers will "know they're in the South."

The NAACP announced at its convention in Ohio this week a renewed boycott and other efforts to bring down the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.

The Confederate flag was originally placed on the top of the S.C. State House dome in 1962.

In 2000, a 36 to 7 vote in the S.C. Senate passed a bill that removed the flag from the dome of the State House and allowed the battle flag to be flown near a monument that honors fallen Confederate soldiers. The bill was later signed into law.

The current legislation prohibits the removal of the flag from the State House grounds.