Posted on 08/02/2015 11:12:09 AM PDT by PROCON
HANOVER, Pa. (AP) -- Many Americans assumed the Confederate flag was retired for good after governors in South Carolina and Alabama removed it from their statehouses this summer and presidential candidates from both parties declared it too divisive for official display.
But people still fly it, and not just in the South, despite announcements by leading flag-makers and retailers that they will no longer sell products showing the secessionist battle flag.
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Some???
There are people down here flying it now and one neighbor who has never flown the flag has now just bought one this weekend and is flying it for the first time in his over 60 years of life.
I just spent a week in south Georgia and was keen to see how this was playing out. The only Confederate flag I saw was on the front plate of an old beat up pickup truck. That was it.
I’m the son of a Yankee Carpet-Bagger and Spanish-Basque Mother.
I hope the Stars & Bars will NEVER cease flyin’!!!!!
Screw the damn media and liberal racists!
Some idiots never learn.
You musta missed my part of town in N. Atlanta.
Dixie flags everywhere!
This one vet had four flags on this truck:
1 MIA
1 POW
1 DTOM
1 CFA
Wanted to hug the guy....but he may have shot me for tryin’. ;)
It’s an America thing. There are still Americans who don’t like the Nazi and Commie PUBLIC SERVANTS in the District of Corruption telling them what they can and cannot do. I heard someone on TV say the other day, American anger at the government has turned into contempt of the government. Truer words have never been spoken. What is currently going on in Washington is not what the Founding Fathers intended for the American people.
My people were Copperheads. Which I guess is why I recently bought 2 Confederate flags.
“Tell people they can’t do something and see what happens”
I am one of those kind of people. I have never flown the Confederate flag............but I am searching for one now!
I was in the Thomasville area. Very rural, lots of Spanish moss hanging everywhere, nice area and people.
The idiots at AP have evidently never heard of “The Streisand effect” - the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet. (as Wikipedia defines it)
The Confederate flag issue is a corollary to the Streisand effect...
ultimateflags.com
I got a first confederate flag and a Bonny Blue, both of which are unrecognizable to those inclined to vandalism, but both symbols of resistance.
ultimateflags.com
I got a first confederate flag and a Bonny Blue, both of which are unrecognizable to those inclined to vandalism, but both symbols of resistance.
Way down South GA!
Beautiful area, but the summers are brutal!
Thank you. I believe you are correct. That is who it was.
It’s that darn persnickety First Amendment issue again.
My buddy relo-d there (south of Macon) in the 70s.
Called it “all the heat without the beach”
LOL! I can relate to that saying!
The closer to the coast, you’ll get that sand gnat effect also.
Savannah & Brunswick are horrible this time of year.
Try this site-
http://www.cootersplace.com/general-store/category/confederate-merch/
I have no experience with ordering there, just found it on the net.
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