# Are there Confederate flaggers parading in your streets? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 18, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553 "2015-07-18T22:36:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/41 "2015-07-19T15:34:20Z")
No. There are a few rednecks floating around, but they have enough sense to keep quiet or we’d eyeroll them right out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/42 "2015-07-19T15:44:45Z")
One of my co-workers said he’d heard some people were flying the Confederate flag in downtown Asheville last night, but it could be just a rumor. I will point out that Asheville is the home of the real-life [Clayton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._K._Edgerton) [Bigsby](https://www.google.com/search?q=h.k.+edgerton&biw=1078&bih=685&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCwQsARqFQoTCMLkt93E58YCFYUriAodXQMAxA).\* \*The black white supremacist from _The Chappelle Show_ for those who don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/43 "2015-07-19T16:38:16Z")
In Webster Groves MO yesterday saw two big-ass late model pickup trucks parallel parked with the biggest damned Confed flags I have ever seen sticking up behind the driver’s doors. Don’t know if they live there or were visiting. Going by that way in a little while and am interested if they are still there. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/44 "2015-07-19T18:28:44Z")
Thank Og, no. But Washington State is not a place where you expect to see that Traitor’s Flag much, not even in the central and eastern, or rural, parts of the state. ETA: the rainbow flag is pretty common, though. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/45 "2015-07-19T19:22:50Z")
I’m in Texas. I’ve seen a few, but no more than usual. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/46 "2015-07-19T19:28:00Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > In my town (Richmond, VA), about a hundred pick-up trucks decked out with Confederate flags have been parading up and down the main drag all day. They were also out last weekend. I suspect they’ll be out again tomorrow. > > I’m so sick of them. I wish they could be gone with the wind. In California? Hardly. But wasnt there a PIT thread a little while ago where a Southern poster tried to claim that the South wasnt unique in it’s racism? Not that there isnt racism everywhere\*, but the South is unique in how it glorifies it and how many bigots are openly racist. - altho of course, no where near as much when I was a kid in the 50’s. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/47 "2015-07-19T19:30:58Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m sure there are Confederate [Battle] Flag supporters in California somewhere, but I have to say that it is nice living in a place where the Civil War isn’t really part of local history. It’s true that there was some participation by CA in the CW, but I’ve never heard anyone here talk about it in any personal way. CA does have a couple big recreation battles, like at Ft Tejon. But of course the battle flag during a recreation is OK. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/48 "2015-07-19T19:32:37Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I’ve never understood what “southern heritage” is supposed to mean Racism. Hate. Bigotry. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/49 "2015-07-19T20:16:15Z")
You left out “glorying in ignorance”. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/50 "2015-07-19T21:13:09Z")
I haven’t seen any recently in the Sacramento/Roseville area, even though this area is a hotbed of redneckery. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/51 "2015-07-19T21:23:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You left out “glorying in ignorance”. You’re right.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/52 "2015-07-19T22:38:37Z")
No rebel activity in Albuquerque so far. I’ve seen decals in pickup windows once in a great while, but it’s been a few years since I even saw that. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/53 "2015-07-19T22:55:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > CA does have a couple big recreation battles, like at Ft Tejon. But of course the battle flag during a recreation is OK. Does anyone in this thread agree with this? Has anyone in this thread actually gone out and got in the face of and removed the flag from anyone not you related to you that you know you can push around? Anyone in this thread who has a father or mother or MIL or FIL that flew one until you got in their face and called them a traitor and forcibly removed it? Please give verifiable details of your proud defense of the US of A. Anyone in this thread put their money where their mouth is and moved out of the states considered South in this thread? Will you refuse to do business with anyone who still lives in the South and has a Rebel flag unless they shit on and post it on the big three internet social sites? Will you call all relatives that have a rebel flag a traitor at the next Christmas gathering? I believe this thread is so full of bull shit & is stuffed full of what is so wrong with people in general and … Aw hell, you all make me want to spit. Yeah, you all have the ‘high road’… ( can’t even come close with all this hot air as there will never be enough of it to even get you out of the low road bar ditch. ) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/54 "2015-07-20T00:30:55Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > I believe this thread is so full of bull shit & is stuffed full of what is so wrong with people in general Yes, curse these people for commenting on whether or not they see confederate flags in their neighborhoods! Verily the observant shall be cast down to trapped in flaming tombs in the Sixth Circle of Hell with the rest of the heretics! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/55 "2015-07-20T00:55:04Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Has anyone in this thread actually gone out and got in the face of and removed the flag from anyone not you related to you that you know you can push around? Well, I booed some rebel recreationists who were in a local 4th of July parade. I didn’t get in their faces because they were better armed than I. > [@](#): > > Anyone in this thread put their money where their mouth is and moved out of the states considered South in this thread? Well, dropdad moved us for me, but I was ten. He didn’t like all the racism and shit. The locals didn’t like him because he was a Yankee, with Yankee attitudes. It was best all around that we left. > [@](#): > > Will you refuse to do business with anyone who still lives in the South and has a Rebel flag…? If I know it? Yep. Plenty of other vendors out there. > [@](#): > > Will you call all relatives that have a rebel flag a traitor at the next Christmas gathering? I would, but it would be more like a Russian flag and pro-Putin comments. Except it wouldn’t happen because we have learned to avoid certain topics, rather than troll the dinner table or the neighborhood. Like adults. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/56 "2015-07-20T01:13:30Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Please give verifiable details of your proud defense of the US of A. Post # 21 although I didn’t _make_ him remove it. It’s a free country, I’m not going to remove anyone’s anything. > [@GusNSpot](#): > > Anyone in this thread put their money where their mouth is and moved out of the states considered South in this thread? I don’t even understand this. I’m not even sure if this area is considered “south,” but if it is, I can’t exactly move, nor would I. > [@GusNSpot](#): > > Will you refuse to do business with anyone who still lives in the South and has a Rebel flag unless they shit on and post it on the big three internet social sites? How would someone know if someone they do business with has a rebel flag? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/57 "2015-07-20T01:21:47Z")
When I visit Virginia to go fishing or hiking, I make a point not to shop anywhere that displays a confederate flag. It’s not uncommon to see them in front of restaurants or shops in rural Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/58 "2015-07-20T02:02:09Z")
They did a single protest, but then it was over. But I’m here in the part of Arkansas that didn’t really go with the Confederacy. Too many hills for slavery to be profitable, and too out of the way for the war to really affect us. If we’d have had more people, and Little Rock wasn’t captured as fast as it was, we might have gotten a North Arkansas the way we got a West Virginia. Edit: There were some pretty racist comments on local news article on the protest, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/59 "2015-07-20T05:31:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > **[t-bonham@scc.net](mailto:t-bonham@scc.net)**: Can you link to those two incidents? [Albert Lea Firefighter](http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-firefighter-flies-confederate-flag-in-parade/311674981/) There are many more links. And I misremembered the business one – it was a [NAPA Auto Parts store parade unit](http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_28444833/another-confederate-flag-makes-appearance-minnesota-parade). ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/60 "2015-07-20T13:57:04Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > No parades, but there’s been a serious uptick in flags flying from redneck trucks here in East Tennessee. > > I’ve never understood what “southern heritage” is supposed to mean but I’m certainly not going to let that bullshit slide here where we supported the North. > > A clueless 20 year old co-worker drove in with one and I couldn’t resist teaching him that East Tennessee was pro-union and that when Tennessee voted to secede from the Union, East Tennessee voted to secede from Tennessee. They had to send confederate soldiers here to occupy the area. > > I told him that I was proud to be from the south (not really, just using the flagger’s logic against them) where we stick up for what we think is right and I thought it was offensive that he was flying the flag of the people who were sent here to force us to do what they wanted at gunpoint. > > He kind of laughed uncomfortably and made a joke then went back to work, but the flag disappeared from his truck. I drove through Sevierville this weekend and can tell you the Confederate flag is alive and well. Lots of pickups were flying them and some of the tattoo parlors were offering 50% off confederate flag tattoos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553.md?page=4)