Eight states have ordered flags raised for Inauguration Day, even though it is customary to keep them lowered for 30 days after a president's death

The order comes as the nation mourns the loss of former President Jimmy Carter, which prompted flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days after his death.

Although the U.S. flag is at half-staff to mark the death of President Jimmy Carter, 8 Republican-led states will raise flags for Trump's inauguration

Flags should fly at full staff in South Carolina, by order of Gov. Henry McMaster, for Monday’s presidential inauguration then return to half-staff honoring former President

Gov. Kelly Armstrong directed the U.S. and North Dakota flags to be flown at full staff on Monday, Jan. 20, at the North Dakota Capitol and all state buildings in celebration of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

BISMARCK, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Gov. Kelly Armstrong directed U.S. and North Dakota flags to be flown at full staff on Jan. 20 at the North Dakota Capitol and all state buildings in celebration of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

It was September 1976 and a young kid from Crosby had just received the biggest assignment of his four-month-old professional reporting career in Bismarck -- cover Jimmy Carter's visit.

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting, biracial general election coalition.