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Confederate flag sales booming after Charlottesville
Actions News Jax ^ | August 26, 2017 | Bob D'Angelo

Posted on 08/27/2017 10:37:30 AM PDT by Twotone

Despite the controversy over monuments and the deadly Alt-Left vs Alt-Right rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, there has been another surge in the sale of Confederate flags, CBS News reported.

Belinda Kennedy, owner of the Alabama Flag & Banner shop in Huntsville, Alabama, said sales have been brisk. She said sales spiked even more “dramatically within in the last 24 hours,” since an interview about the shop was published at AL.com.

“What's really pushing sales [now] is removal of the monuments,” said Kennedy, who opened her shop in 1985. “The general feeling I get from customers that call and email is that they are just pushing back at a small group of people who are trying to revise a huge slice of American history. I think as long as that's in the news,” demand will continue.

Most U.S. flag makers stopped producing Confederate flags two years ago, CBS News reported, when sales surged after Dylann Roof went on a shooting rampage at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof, convicted of killing nine people, was sentenced to death in January.

Annin Flagmakers stopped making the Confederate Battle Flag version after the shootings, Mary E. Repke, senior vice president of sales and marketing, told CBS News in an e-mail. They were a tiny portion of sales and went primarily to Civil War reenactor organizations, she added.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; confederacy; dixie; flags; trends
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To: Bringbackthedraft

I happen to have a 48 star flag around here somewhere.
Several small ones on sticks, too.
I don’t remember why I have them, though.

:D


41 posted on 08/27/2017 11:53:35 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: real saxophonist

Normal, sane people are not terrified by bits of cloth.

:)


42 posted on 08/27/2017 11:54:39 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Twotone

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3580907/posts

‘Democrats gradually become the caricature villain ... the party of Colin Kaepernick and Melissa Click and the screaming girl at Yale and the people defacing the Lincoln Memorial and the pundits who equivocate over condemning Antifa and the transgender YouTube activist who insists that ‘some women have penises’.


43 posted on 08/27/2017 11:55:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Statues today - books tomorrow - the unmasking of totalitarian elites is starting...)
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To: Twotone

Can’t find any at Amazon. Where are they being sold?


44 posted on 08/27/2017 11:57:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: shibumi
The Hagerstown South High Rebels *used* to have a Rebel soldier where that stupid oval thing is, now.


45 posted on 08/27/2017 11:57:49 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

‘Democrats gradually become the caricature villain ... the party of Colin Kaepernick and Melissa Click and the screaming girl at Yale and the people defacing the Lincoln Memorial and the pundits who equivocate over condemning Antifa and the transgender YouTube activist who insists that ‘some women have penises’.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3580907/posts

Democrats are recruiting for us with their silly ‘takes’ on reality. Best thing to do is stand out of their way and let them destroy themselves.


46 posted on 08/27/2017 11:58:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Statues today - books tomorrow - the unmasking of totalitarian elites is starting...)
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To: I want the USA back

Amazon wussed out right after Haley’s Folly.

Give these good people your business.

They will happily ship to anywhere and they have a crapload of rebel flag items of every kind.

https://www.facebook.com/Parrills/


47 posted on 08/27/2017 12:00:45 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: GOPJ

From your keyboard to God’s ears, GOPJ.


48 posted on 08/27/2017 12:01:43 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: I want the USA back

Alabama Flag & Banner shop in Huntsville, Alabama,


49 posted on 08/27/2017 12:05:16 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: I want the USA back
ebay has the real Confederate flag, for now.....
50 posted on 08/27/2017 12:08:37 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: I want the USA back

I’ve got one, looks pretty new, got it in a box with a baseball hat made like a flag in a storage auction about a year or 2 ago. Its somewhere in the garage in a different box. I am saving it for a friend in LA if he shows up here.


51 posted on 08/27/2017 12:11:14 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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The mighty Mopar General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard is highly despised by the Liberals, the left, the Social Justice Warriors, and many other organizations on that side of the fence.

It’s interesting to remember and keep this in context: that the Dukes of Hazzard television show, much like The Beverly Hillbillies, television show was written in Hollywood California as a spoof to demean people from the South by promoting them as Hicks and Grits and Rednecks with Low Intelligence. Oddly enough the shows flourished and did very well in the market. But when Hollywoodland makes fun of... but when things go bad for the propaganda they point to these iconic figures that the left created to demean Southerners and it completely backfired.

I view this much like the Mel Gibson movie “The Passion”, where practically every night newscasters were appalled that Mel Gibson was making a movie about The Passion of Christ. What they did buy showing angst towards this effort of Mel Gibson was to actually promote the movie globally. Resulting in skyrocketing attendance at the theater from not only Christians, And Non-christians who wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Another backfire. in a roundabout way the Lord use newscasters and they’re angry feelings about Christianity to actually Propel the movie to a much wider audience and perhaps saving many more souls than would have happened otherwise.

When the hand is overplayed as is the case in many things on the left that are routinely overplayed, it appears that oftentimes the outcome is a good kick in the shins.


52 posted on 08/27/2017 12:12:34 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

What dimensions? Where did you get it?


53 posted on 08/27/2017 12:19:57 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Salamander
My people were the immigrant Irish Catholic working class. My ate mothers people came here in the late 1850s and her great-great grandfather served in The Army Of The Potomac from 1864-65. He's buried in Arlington Cemetery. My fathers people came here around the mid 1900s. I was born and raised in the northeastern New jersey town of Kearny, named for it's most famous son Union Army General Phil Kearny. I hoping the snowflakes will get bored with being social justice warriors'' and go back to their bongs and video games in moms basement. Anyhoo... how you've had a pleasant summer mademoiselle, all things considered. I have had a nice one.
54 posted on 08/27/2017 12:26:54 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma! Top of the world!'')
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To: Bringbackthedraft

I hear you. I’m 61 and when I was a kid this was a free country.


55 posted on 08/27/2017 12:28:33 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma! Top of the world!'')
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To: onedoug

Mine is 3’ x 5’. Ebay has them in various sizes.
Type in 1st confederate flag for listings.


56 posted on 08/27/2017 12:34:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

You forgot the Norwegian jokes..


57 posted on 08/27/2017 12:35:36 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: jmacusa

Worst summer of my life. :(

I wish but do not believe the snowflakes will get bored.

This will continue and escalate for the entirety of Trump’s term(s).

The demons howl because they fear they will be cast out.

I see no end in sight.


58 posted on 08/27/2017 1:05:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Clutch Martin

They took the flag off the top for the movie remake.

Now, it’s just the Generally.

:(


59 posted on 08/27/2017 1:07:13 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

It’s not succeeding.lTrump won because of lunacy like this and will win again. This will backfire bigly...


60 posted on 08/27/2017 1:20:34 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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