# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/141 "2015-08-08T22:23:12Z")
There’s a business just down the street that just started flying two big ones. The interesting part is the name of the small business is Sal’s XYZ Company. When I think of a guy named Sal, I don’t think of some Confederate flag waver that’s for sure. Maybe Sal is flying it on principle? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/142 "2015-08-08T22:46:39Z")
In my neighborhood (mostly blue-collar, solid middle class, pretty rednecky, but most people keep their yards and houses neet), one guy has a US Marines flag and the US flag flying from his truck. Okay, not so bad, but I just noticed a front plate (we have only one issued plate for the rear, not two like in California) with the Confederate flag and an eagle’s head airbrushed on it. That was Step 1. Step 2 was the Confederate flag sticker with “Heritage – Not Hate” emblazoned on it, stuck in the back window of the truck. Step 3: Truck nuts attached to the back bumper. Conversion complete! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/143 "2015-08-11T22:48:38Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I live about 70 miles south of Albany–same deal. No parades, very unusual to see a Confederate flag under any circumstances. > > I did see a guy with a Confederate flag emblem on his hat at a rest stop on the NY Thruway just west of Albany recently. Before the events in SC, I would’ve assumed ignorance or misplaced “patriotism,” if indeed he was from the South. This was after the shooting, though, and I can only assume he’s an asshole. Okay, update: this weekend I was paddling on the Susquehanna River between Cooperstown and Oneonta NY. We (my daughter and I) rounded a bend in an otherwise empty-of-human-habitation section of the river and came upon a house overlooking the water, a house with three flags: –A large US flag; –A large POW/MIA flag; and –A superlarge, humongous, ginormous Confederate flag dwarfing the other two. My daughter said, “I haven’t seen one of those for a really long time.” I said, “I wish it had been longer!” Anyway, another data point… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/144 "2015-08-11T23:04:29Z")
Curiously, this weekend in the lovely town of Moncks Corner, SC - where I live these days - I was treated to the competing sights of: 1. A gathering of pick up trucks all flying the Confederate battle flag. 2. An all black group playing steel drums Outside my local Wal-Mart. Oy. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/145 "2015-08-12T19:45:00Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I haven’t heard Secular Humanist used seriously as an insult in years. If chawbacons ever let ANYTHING become unstylish I might think it was passé. But, as we see with that damned flag, they don’t, so I must not have been looking hard enough. I’m trying hard to figure out how ‘bacon’ could ever be used as an insult. I think I need to find a bacon battle flag to fly. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/146 "2015-08-12T19:46:51Z")
Chawbacon was that hairy guy from Star Wars, right? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/147 "2015-08-12T19:47:50Z")
'Bacon Hater " would be a grievous insult to me. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/148 "2015-08-12T20:51:45Z")
Wendy’s Baconator - mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/149 "2015-08-12T22:27:36Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > 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. [Nice to see you stand behind your flag, GusNSpot, and all it stands for.](https://youtu.be/rtVVz0UtRJc?t=43s) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/150 "2015-08-12T23:54:07Z")
Saw a slave flag hanging in the back window of a bubba truck in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, earlier this week. Bubbas being bubbas, it might be that he is a racist asshole who hates blacks despite there being extremely few blacks at this end of the province (tens of thousands of slaves made it to Canada via the underground railroad, but in those days our end of the province comprised of a fur trading post in the midst of First Peoples), or it might be that he is simply is too dumb to understand why the slave flag is so offensive to so many people. My guess is both. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/151 "2015-08-13T01:40:06Z")
[I got a chuckle out of this.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ga-kkk-member-wears-fubu-shoes-confederate-flag-rally-article-1.2314297) ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/152 "2015-08-13T14:50:21Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > … If chawbacons ever let ANYTHING become unstylish I might think it was passé. … “Chawbacon”? Well by crackey that thar’s a new one on me. Enlightenment please? Where, when, & what for this term? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/153 "2015-08-13T15:07:08Z")
Chawbacon is Ham Salami’s first mate. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/154 "2015-08-13T16:43:13Z")
You’re being helpful but you’re not helping. \ Merriam Webster says its a synonym for yokel, etc. What surprised me most is that it dates from the 1500s. I’d never hear heard of it before although I know the rest of their thesaurus’s entries for it. New word _du jour_. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/155 "2015-08-13T18:54:49Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Does anyone in this thread agree with this? [snip] Hey, I’m across the state line from you, I guess. I don’t care so much if you have a “Rebel” decal or whatever, if you’re not a dick about it. But some people, well, they may not mean any harm, but they don’t come off so well putting the giant Battle Flags on their houses kind of right after a mass shooting by a racist. And there’s just enough history of KKK and WAR activity around here that people _might_ think you’re one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/156 "2015-08-13T19:01:34Z")
what is “WAR activity”? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/157 "2015-08-13T19:17:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > what is “WAR activity”? White Aryan Resistance. Neo-Nazi hate group. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/158 "2015-08-13T19:48:36Z")
I’d mostly stopped seeing the vehicles that had them, let alone any new ones… till just a bit ago. Then down the road zipped a jeep with the top off flying a big, brand new looking flag. The way it was attached it would have to come down to put the top on so it’s not even just attach once and leave it. It’s extra work to hoist it each time the top comes off. Make the count post furor: 11-12 unique vehicles with flags 1 unconfirmed possible 1 truck hitch cover _Checks google_ Yep this was still a Union state. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/159 "2015-08-18T01:28:25Z")
[Flag rallies, mapped.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/17/all-173-confederate-flag-rallies-since-the-charleston-massacre-mapped/) 173 so far, with at least 23,000 attendees. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/160 "2015-08-18T01:49:13Z")
Although, I see they’re missing the Hillsborough, NC one, which was kind of a big deal in the news here (and which monstro linked to upthread). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553.md?page=9)