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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wait until you see the Confederate flags in PA. Ya know, where the battle of Gettysburg happened. Very much not a southern state. It's wild seeing this shit in my neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Confederate flags are in canada and California, it’s just a flag for racists to roleplay with, the confederacy won’t rise again anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't "rise again" but the spirit of it absolutely has resurfaced in other forms, and will continue too so long as a significant number of people in this country identify with white supremacy and abject hatred.

The original KKK were effectively the remnants of the Confederate army + new recruits. And it's continued to find new banners in the generations since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It very much depends on what you mean when you say "the spirit of it," which I think you have to admit, is open to a lot of interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So much not a southern state that its bottom border is literally the Mason-Dixon line. Some people are, indeed, whack.

I have seen Confederate battle flags flying on trucks and houses in and around Gettysburg, no less. I get the impression that people are not doing this for historical reenactment purposes...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

It's the racism. That's why.

[–] lingh0e 9 points 1 year ago

Seriously. I live in the Cleveland area of Ohio. We are geographically closer to Canada than the Mason Dixon. There's still an abundance of hoople heads flying confederate flags.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I saw more Confederate battle flags in Indianapolis than Atlanta. Fuck Indianapolis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even worse are the ones I see flying in West Virginia – you know, the state that only exists because its inhabitants didn't want to secede along with the rest of Virginia.