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Originally Posted by thetaj
Do people in the North honestly believe that when people in the South fly the rebel flag, they're doing so because they're racist/pleased with the results of slavery/trying to reverse the outcome of the Civil War? Honest question. Because if you HONESTLY think that's why it's flown down here, then shame on you for being so ignorant about the South.
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No, I believe that's why the majority of people in the
North (who have no ties to the South or the Confederacy) fly the rebel flag. I have no idea why people in the South do it.
And everything in winter's post above. So if she's skewed, I'm skewed too. It seems like in the last 2 decades or so, people from the rural areas around here seem to want to wallow in the worst stereotypes of it, whereas before they aspired to something better. There's a difference between being proud of where you're from and acting like it gives you a license to be an uneducated ignoramus.