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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 7, 2021 21:47:59 GMT
outside of the place they live? I don't know what this flag means, or it means something good or bad. But i would say it might not be socially acceptable to do something like that.
So therefore since that doing that would be weird, i wouldn't want anything to do with someone that had one. Just because, it would be a weird thing to do.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 7, 2021 21:53:53 GMT
No i have never known anybody who owned a confederate flag
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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 7, 2021 22:03:24 GMT
No.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jul 8, 2021 1:03:04 GMT
The closest thing would be the one on my childhood friend's Dukes of Hazzard General Lee toy car.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Jul 8, 2021 1:37:01 GMT
No but I once saw a pick up truck with elevated tires sporting two big Confederate flags on the back.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Jul 8, 2021 6:34:55 GMT
I saw it hanging on a friend of a friend’s wall but this was in the mid-'90s, but it might’ve been from The Dukes of Hazzard.  |
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Post by gameboy on Jul 8, 2021 7:49:01 GMT
No but I once saw a pick up truck with elevated tires sporting two big Confederate flags on the back. lol goddamn rednecks
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Post by gameboy on Jul 8, 2021 7:52:29 GMT
I guess there must be no Southerners here.
There's a house on the next street over from mine with an American flag and below it a faded Confederate flag on a pole in their front yard.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Jul 8, 2021 9:58:42 GMT
No but I once saw a pick up truck with elevated tires sporting two big Confederate flags on the back. lol goddamn rednecks I only live a few miles out of Philly which is still pretty dense but central PA is more redneck than West VA sometimes.
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Post by uncreative on Jul 8, 2021 15:38:31 GMT
I only live a few miles out of Philly which is still pretty dense but central PA is more redneck than West VA sometimes. Yeah that makes sense. Those Pennsylvanians are well known for their confederate heritage and southern pride.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Jul 8, 2021 16:10:51 GMT
I only live a few miles out of Philly which is still pretty dense but central PA is more redneck than West VA sometimes. Yeah that makes sense. Those Pennsylvanians are well known for their confederate heritage and southern pride. Joshua Chamberlain is rolling in his grave.
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Post by gameboy on Jul 8, 2021 19:00:40 GMT
I only live a few miles out of Philly which is still pretty dense but central PA is more redneck than West VA sometimes. Yeah that makes sense. Those Pennsylvanians are well known for their confederate heritage and southern pride. Redneck is not always synonymous with Southern. We all know that.
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Post by novastar6 on Jul 8, 2021 19:28:44 GMT
Hell the 500 gram cake fireworks sold around here used to be covered in them until 'durrrh, ban the Dukes of Hazzard, it made Dylan Roof shoot 10 people!'
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Post by enigma72 on Jul 8, 2021 21:05:36 GMT
When I walk by open garages, I sometimes see a Confederate flag on the wall.
I don't 'know ' these people. One neighbor I knew had one but it is gone
I hate to admit looking in garages. Lol
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 8, 2021 21:16:56 GMT
Nope. Not really a symbol you come across much in Minnesota.
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Post by uncreative on Jul 8, 2021 21:53:37 GMT
Yeah that makes sense. Those Pennsylvanians are well known for their confederate heritage and southern pride. Redneck is not always synonymous with Southern. We all know that. I know, but it also cheapens the argument those people always try to make that it's about their heritage. Not that they ever cared about logical consistency in the first place.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 8, 2021 22:17:23 GMT
People I know personally, no. But downstate, there are many on people's front porches. 90% also have a MAGA banner also. Truth
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Post by gameboy on Jul 9, 2021 0:23:19 GMT
Redneck is not always synonymous with Southern. We all know that. I know, but it also cheapens the argument those people always try to make that it's about their heritage. Not that they ever cared about logical consistency in the first place. 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'. 
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Post by Stammerhead on Jul 9, 2021 0:35:15 GMT
I know, but it also cheapens the argument those people always try to make that it's about their heritage. Not that they ever cared about logical consistency in the first place. 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'. Some people outside the USA seem to like it as a symbol of rebellion. 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, Londonwww.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33471885
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Post by gameboy on Jul 9, 2021 1:37:54 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'. Some people outside the USA seem to like it as a symbol of rebellion. 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, Londonwww.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33471885 Well, as the man said, that surprises an American.
Perhaps it's a bit like young Americans stupidly displaying the swastika as a sign of rebellion, not knowing what it fully represents to a German or a Jew.
There is a lot of bias in the U.S. against Southerners. Like I said, people in the North and the West may be quite conservative, even "rednecks", but the Confederate flag symbolizes Southern backwater ignorance to them.
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