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This Confederate Store Owner Is Thrilled the ‘Big Boys’ Don’t Want to Sell Flag
Time ^ | 6/24/15 | Katy Osborn

Posted on 06/25/2015 5:20:15 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

"We're glad to see ignorant people getting out of the business"

Major U.S. retailers say they’re done selling the Confederate flag—but Dewey Barber is just getting started.

Under pressure, retail giants including Walmart, Amazon and eBay announced that they would pull Confederate flags and similar themed products from their websites.

Barber, though, decided to do the exact opposite—he plans to begin manufacturing the Confederate flag and add it to the lineup on his Dixie Outfitters website, now that the “big boys” are out of the business.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


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KEYWORDS: dixie; economics; history; truth
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To: advertising guy

Love it!
Hope you are doing well, FRiend.


21 posted on 06/25/2015 5:44:51 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The PC mob will make this guy a wealthy man if he can stand the pace. If he’s got ‘em, I’m ordering one.


22 posted on 06/25/2015 5:46:26 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rdl6989

Ken Burns will be forced, at gunpoint, to re-edit his series to delete all images of the Confederacy and to purge any comments by southern historians who even FEIGN sympathy for the position of the Confederacy.

Searches by police will soon, by Executive order of Valerie’s man child, be warranted to enter homes and search for confederate flag paraphernalia. Bongs, cocaine, and weed can be ignored.

Children who DARE to draw confederate flags in art class or on the front of their notebooks will be sent to detention, recommended for re-education camps. Parents will lose custody.

Got a bumper sticker with the confederate flag? Expect to have your car keyed. Or worse.


23 posted on 06/25/2015 5:51:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: bigbob

...Stupid liberals may have finally done something that actually stimulates the economy...

They’ve been great for gun and ammo sales and manufacturing jobs since at least 1994’s AWB.


24 posted on 06/25/2015 5:57:23 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I'm thinking I might and my ancestors fought for the Union. No Confederate flag means then that there was no Confederacy, no Civil War. Hell if it were illegal here to own a swastika flag I'd by one for the same reason. This is beyond stupid but hey, like the man is basically saying in the article his major competition is putting themselves out of business.
25 posted on 06/25/2015 6:00:26 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: Repeal The 17th

all good here, hottern hell too


26 posted on 06/25/2015 6:02:36 PM PDT by advertising guy ( panties - not the best thing on earth, but next to it .)
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To: TexasGator

Irony is lost on you, isn’t dude?


27 posted on 06/25/2015 6:04:24 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: SoFloFreeper

I never bought one of their flags, but I’ve always received quality products from Dixie Gun Works, the place to go for Black Powder shooting...

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/default.php?cPath=22_278


28 posted on 06/25/2015 6:09:12 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: SoFloFreeper

“The confederate flag subjugates blacks” —> Removed from sale

“The Koran subjugates women” —> ????


29 posted on 06/25/2015 6:11:15 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Sasparilla

About 5 years ago, I talked with Don Davis, who at one time owned several gun stores in Indy.

His cheesy commercials always featured him saying “ I don’t want to make a lot of money, I just LOVE to sell guns”

He was all over the national news in support of the AWB at the time.

He was still bragging and laughing about how much money he made from the several shipping containers full of the “to be banned” items he sold before the law went into effect.


30 posted on 06/25/2015 6:26:57 PM PDT by digger48
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To: JoeDetweiler

No thanks. Looks like a bit of profiteering going on there. I’ll wait until the prices are reasonable .

Most flags are under $40. Bonnie Blue is $77.95, Naval Jack is $215.00 http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_278&products_id=11019

Don’t see a First National.


31 posted on 06/25/2015 6:29:11 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SoFloFreeper

My ancestors were in the Union. But this is not really about NOrth and South, it’s about destroying our heritage. It makes me want to buy a few and put them in very obvious places.


32 posted on 06/25/2015 6:47:43 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: SoFloFreeper

I feel the same way.

I never wanted the flag until this insanity started.

Sometimes thing backfire.

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33 posted on 06/25/2015 6:49:50 PM PDT by Mears
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To: PAR35

But they also have this one for $12. Nylon vs Polyester. Danged if I know the difference. The $12 flag is actually bigger.

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_278&products_id=11081


34 posted on 06/25/2015 6:49:59 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: SoFloFreeper

Watch for Drudge to cover this one.

I just spent close to 200.00 bucks for local retailers on Confederate memorabilia.

Witnessed a Jeep today on US64 near Jordan Lake, NC ALL DECKED OUT!

It’s gonna be viral and in your face.


35 posted on 06/25/2015 6:54:16 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: rdl6989

The souths gonna do it again.


36 posted on 06/25/2015 6:58:59 PM PDT by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: River Hawk

It is about the 1st Amendment and the right to freedom of expression.

If Amazon wants to express themselves as hating American history but adoring NAZI history, let them have at it.


37 posted on 06/25/2015 7:07:20 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bet people that sell at Flea Markets can make a killing this summer just by selling Confederate items.


Kind of funny how some psycho is getting exactly what he wants - attention - now this BS about the Confederate flag will always be associated with the scum bag.


Had ancestors fighting on both sides - none of them owned slaves as far as I know ( that’s what all the kids were for) - hell at least one fought for both sides at one time or another.

How many of the Confederate soldiers even owned slaves? Probably not many. Because the war had nothing really to do with slavery for most people.


38 posted on 06/25/2015 8:39:29 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 --RIP 6-22-02)
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To: All

Prepare the audit!


39 posted on 06/25/2015 9:01:00 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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