Let's check the map.
Yep, Ohio's still in the North.
Posted on 08/29/2015 7:38:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The 12,000-strong city of Bucyrus, Ohio, down near Mansfield, will host a "Confederate Flag Pride Parade" on Saturday.
The Port Clinton News-Herald reports that roughly 50 vehicles are expected to participate, and that city leaders are expecting neither disruption nor significant changes in traffic volume.
Event organizers didn't exactly echo the "heritage not hate" refrain of Confederate Flag supporters nationwide. One told the News-Herald that the flag is "not racist at all," that it's "just another red, white and blue flag," a "military thing."
He said that organizers in Bucyrus had been trying to assemble a parade before, but couldn't muster up more than five or 10 vehicles to participate. After this summer's terrorist attack by Dylan Roof in South Carolina, though, and the subsequent removal of the Confederate Flag from the S.C. capitol building, those who contend that the flag is most certainly not a racist symbol have emerged in force.
The parade's announcement comes shortly after a parade on the other side of town which featured confederate symbols.
In Willoughby, where the high school's mascot, "The Rebel," is a confederate soldier, and where students sill embroider the confederate flag onto their letterman jackets in spite of school rules, a downtown parade on Aug. 15 included a float celebrating Sons of Confederate Veterans. That float included a Confederate National Flag and, bizarre as it sounds, an Alabama Sate flag.
In an editorial in the News-Herald, activist and Willoughby resident Maggie Rice said she thought the float reflected poorly on the city of Willoughby and urged city leaders to apologize.
"This parade said to people visiting Willoughby, particularly people of color, (including the young girls of the predominantly black dance team who performed) that Willoughby is not for them; that we don’t welcome them, and that our city is not a safe environment for them," Rice wrote.
Rice told Scene that a group she organizes with in Lake County will press Mayor David Anderson to ban the flag from city events, and will work to educate the public about the flag's history.
Let's check the map.
Yep, Ohio's still in the North.
It’s now Saturday evening, at least in California. So, did this flag fest happen? If I don’t hear any bad news, it must have occured without much negative incidents. Hope so.
Ping ;D
It’s not all that surprising, because from the end of WWII to the 1960’s, there was a large migration of southerners to midwest manufacturing states.
Ohio was well known as Copperhead Country.
And THAT is why some call Ypsilanti, Mich. “ Ipsituckey”.
Ohio Ping
from the pictures I’ve seen it looked like about 50 cars, trucks and motorcycles. Quite a few spectators, and one lone protester, a white liberal.
Saw a Michigan license plate a few days ago: “Ypsi KY.”
Too bad for the City that the Willow Run Assy Plant and the auto trans plant got shut down.
Ohio? Ohio. Ohio!
I lived in Ohio a long time. I was always a bit confused as to why the confederate flag was so popular in ohio. I think similar things are true in Indiana. It was more popular there than in Texas.
I am convinced the “Battle Flag” will soon be a regular standard for those fighting against big government and the GOP-E.
Yup.
That is it.
:)
The horror...the horror.
:(
And tyranny. :)
There’s a pic of the General Lee with Harvey Milk’s name on either side of his flag on the roof. I’m looking but haven’t found it online yet.
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