Posted on 06/28/2015 5:33:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
With a name like Dixie Flags, you might think the San Antonio-based business would be the last place on earth that would banish Confederate flags — you would be wrong.
After 57 years in a business started by his parents, Pete Van de Putte said that Dixie Flag will no longer make or sell the Confederate battle flag.
In an interview with the San Antonio Express-News this week, Van de Putte says that in conversations with manufacturers and suppliers, they have all decided to stop making or shipping the controversial flag.
“My official opinion is now that it is an offensive item and we will not sell it,” Pete Van de Putte said. “The industry opinion changed and I’m part of the industry. So, I won’t sell the flag.”
Just to make the record clear, Pete Van de Putte is the husband of former Texas State Senator Liticia Van de Putte, most recently a candidate for Mayor of San Antonio and for Texas Lieutenant Governor. After losing her race against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in November, she lost in the June 13th mayoral runoff election. Mrs. Van de Putte is not employed by her husband’s company nor does she have direct ownership.
The Dixie Flag website does show three other Confederate national flags, and Van de Putte said his company will continue to sell flags associated with the former Confederate States of America for historic reasons. “I just feel strongly this is a bona fide historic flag,” he said. Sales were running around two dozen flags per day in the first part of the week before his decision was made.
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He must have a government contract.
The Stars and Stripes offend a lot of people too, Skippy.
Another huge opportunity for another flag company.
This dust-up will be forgotten in six months to a year (remember Chik Fil A? America has an EXTREMELY short attention span) and those patient enough to wait until the hysteria dies down will be the winners.
Hope they lose a lot of business
This all happened so fast.
It’s not going to last.
My fascist controller told me not to, or else
There are flag companies out there doing a brisk business in these flags right now
He has the same last name as the leftist woman who just lost the election for mayor there.
I will almost guarantee this is only his public face. You call him up and want to order 100 Confederate flags and are ready to pay cah, you’ll get them.
I thought they are usually made in China.
Maybe they offered him the US Navy contract for rainbow flags?
could be!
I’m thinking they must be related somewhere
Needs a salad.
Get the soy and the domestic beer out of your life, and maybe enough of your testosterone will return for you to take your pants back from your wife.
Some people may think the name “Dixie Flags” is offensive. Perhaps they should change the name of their company while they are at it. I don’t know ...
“Scared Shitless Flags”
The word “Dixie” is a very offensive word to the same people who are offended by the flag.
They are married at least I thought I read it in the article.
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