Could lost Confederate symbols represent economic boon for South?

http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/1941834p-8300355c.html ^

[MeanWestTexan]

Yep. Renaming the streets will make it like it didn't happen. Good idea!

Man these liberals are geniuses.

[tjwmason]

Might interest you.

[tjwmason]

Georgia downsized, and then eventually removed a Confederate symbol from its state flag.

Yes and no.

They changed from the Battle Flag to this ghastly mishmash with the Southern Cross on as part of a series of tiny flags. The ensuing 'rebellion' lead to a rethink, and a referendum was held with the choice between the new nasty one, and a design closely based on the Stars and Bars (the first national flag of the C.S.A.), the people voting heavily for the Stars and Bars. In my personal opinion the S.&B. is one of the best flags around aesthetically speaking. This is hardly downplaying the Confederacy, more exploiting people's vexiological ignorance.

[Smokin' Joe]

Yup. Pretty soon they'll (maybe) talk about the document that preceeded the Constitution, y'know, the Articles of ion. (Confederat(e) removed to assuage nonsensical sensibilities)

[Fenris6]

I am offended by the color purple. As are many others. We refuse to do business with anyone sporting purple. Ban Purple Now! ;)

[dixiechick2000]

Missippy ping needed here.

[WKB]

Missippy ping

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you. ;o)

[WKB]

Ask and you shall receive

[WKB]

I heard the blacks were going to boycott Heaven
if the "Street of Gold" wasn't renamed MLK Blvd.

[Ellesu]

This is a public high school in Louisiana. I have attended many football games here and black and white students wave Rebel flags in the stands, Black and white parents proudly wear Rebel flag shirts and no one thinks a thing about it. Black and white students get along just fine and we would never even think about changing it. Check out the band. They will be performing at Bush's inauguration.

http://www.wmrebels.net/

http://www.rebelband.org/

http://www.rebelband.org/music/Dixie%20-%20Track%2004.mp3

[dixiechick2000]

LOL! You are TOO funny. ;o)

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Yeah I am happy with our Georgia state flag, but not the way it came about with the last demoncrat governor barnes meddling in things, a committee came up with that eyesore flag that came before it, it was a concession to liberals who want their stupid minions to believe that a flag with a 19th century emblem is somehow detrimental to their present day lives...

[durasell]

Desperate and stupid symbolic gesture.

[rdb3]

I heard the blacks were going to boycott Heaven if the "Street of Gold" wasn't renamed MLK Blvd.

That's just plain stupid.

[wardaddy]

It's still Delta Drive to me. They can call it what they like.

[wardaddy]

Little Rock, Birmingham, Selma, immediately after something horrible happened in those places, it was for a few years almost impossible to do business," Ownby says.

I don't think what happened in Little Rock compares to the Birmingham church bombing.

Why do these folks harp on nonsensical blackwashing of the past and ignore the modern world collpasing around arguably most of them?

Is that easier, more political or all they can do?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

They will soon start naming "Nat Turner" Avenues as symbols of Black revolt against White oppression.

[PAR35]

This story is enough to make you want to go buy some groceries at Winn Dixie.