Post by Stammerhead on Jul 9, 2021 0:35:15 GMT
I do think it is about their heritage. I know of no one without Southern ties who would fly a Confederate flag.
So I'm a bit skeptical that anybody besides Southerners or white people whose families came from the South are flying Confederate flags. There are plenty of "rednecks" in states like Nebraska or Montana, who have open disdain for the South, and would never fly a Confederate flag.
So these yokels in Pennsylvania who fly Confederate flags are probably the prodigy of the great migration of Southerners to the North and West which began during the Great Depression.
El Schwarz also referred to West Virginia as "redneck". We all know West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War to reject the Confederacy and support the Union. The Confederate flag is anathema to all West Virginian "rednecks".
Just sayin'. 
While campaigning in the most recent UK general election, I saw a man proudly displaying the Confederate flag in the front window of his Battersea, London, flat. As an American living in London, I was surprised to see that flag so I asked him what he thought it represented, and he replied that he flies that flag because he's "a rebel", and that's the "rebel" flag. Ben, London
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