# 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:** 9
**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 18, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/161 "2015-08-18T03:51:39Z")
Noticed one pick-up with a battle flag front Licence plate driving in Regina Saskatchewan today. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/162 "2015-08-18T13:14:59Z")
Last Friday I went fishing in Luray, Virginia and counted 10 flags, mostly hanging in front of shops and a few stickers on cars. The guy who played Cooter on Dukes of Hazard lives in the area and he has a business near Sperryville that flies the flag. He used to have one of the General Lee’s in front of his house too. ---
**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 18, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/163 "2015-08-18T13:19:21Z")
Well, Regina is sort of in the South … of Canada at least. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 21, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/164 "2015-08-21T12:21:40Z")
[Someone broke into a construction site in Asheville and hung a confederate flag from the crane.](http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/08/20/confederate-flag-asheville-downtown-construction-site-crane-trespass-video-reward-divisive-symbol-charleston-shooting-south-carolina-state-house/32049681/) Bless their stupid li’l hearts. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/165 "2015-08-21T12:32:24Z")
> [@C3](#): > > [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. It’s gonna take a lot of moisturizer to soothe that many red necks. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/166 "2015-08-21T12:44:43Z")
Isn’t the Confederate Flag thing a lot like the Orange Order in Northern Ireland? Those nitwits march every summer to commemorate a “long dead dutchman”-are orange flags displayed in the protestant areas these days? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/167 "2015-08-21T12:51:25Z")
Idiots in Belfast fly that flag. I’ve seen it many times. ---
**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 21, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/168 "2015-08-21T13:34:15Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Idiots in Belfast fly that flag. I’ve seen it many times. By “that flag” do you mean the Orange Order banner or the CSA battle flag? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/169 "2015-08-21T15:50:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > By “that flag” do you mean the Orange Order banner or the CSA battle flag? Huh, didn’t see the comment directly above mine. I meant the CSA Battle Flag. You also see Union Jacks, NI flags, UVF flags, etc. in far more abundance. ---
**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 21, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/170 "2015-08-21T17:26:58Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Last Friday I went fishing in Luray, Virginia and counted 10 flags, mostly hanging in front of shops and a few stickers on cars. The guy who played Cooter on Dukes of Hazard lives in the area and he has a business near Sperryville that flies the flag. He used to have one of the General Lee’s in front of his house too. Ben Jones? Hunh. That’s slightly surprising. He was elected to Congress from suburban Atlanta when I was in college. As a Democrat. I voted for him, and remember him being more liberal than I had expected. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/171 "2015-08-21T23:11:56Z")
Saw a full-size one flying from the back of a pickup truck (that appeared to be stock) in Zebulon yesterday morning. He was making a right turn, and almost lost control of the truck in the process. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/172 "2015-08-24T18:51:16Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ben Jones? Hunh. That’s slightly surprising. He was elected to Congress from suburban Atlanta when I was in college. As a Democrat. I voted for him, and remember him being more liberal than I had expected. Yeah, he also ran for congress in Virginia as a Democrat a few years back. The DNC actually asked him to tone down his use of the confederate flag at his events. ---
**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 24, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/173 "2015-08-24T19:39:16Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Saw a full-size one flying from the back of a pickup truck (that appeared to be stock) in Zebulon yesterday morning. He was making a right turn, and almost lost control of the truck in the process. Good thing he didn’t try to turn left; the truck and/or his head might have asploded. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/174 "2015-08-25T08:42:35Z")
[Recent photo](https://twitter.com/aimwoundedknee/status/612018992568508416) taken in Belfast. ---
**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 25, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/175 "2015-08-25T11:24:20Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Yeah, he also ran for congress in Virginia as a Democrat a few years back. The DNC actually asked him to tone down his use of the confederate flag at his events. Geez, no wonder he didn’t get elected. You’d think _“don’t alienate black voters”_ would be a pretty fundamental rule for a Democrat running in the South. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/176 "2015-08-29T21:25:33Z")
I was at a water charges protest in Dublin today and spotted two idiots waving confederate flags. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/177 "2015-08-30T05:03:45Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I was at a water charges protest in Dublin today and spotted two idiots waving confederate flags. So, did they get beat up? That is Ireland and I would think you all would take a major exception to that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/178 "2015-08-30T18:21:09Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > So, did they get beat up? That is Ireland and I would think you all would take a major exception to that. 😛 I think they were told by others to stop waving them because I saw the guys later and the flags were rolled up and they bearers were looking sheepish. One of these pricks was dressed like Guy Fawkes. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/179 "2015-08-30T21:46:28Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I think they were told by others to stop waving them because I saw the guys later and the flags were rolled up and they bearers were looking sheepish. One of these pricks was dressed like Guy Fawkes. Interesting… Thanks for the info. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553/180 "2015-09-05T20:36:17Z")
I saw a 4WD in front of the “Tactical Advantage” store with a two-sided Confederate/Don’t Tread on Me flag on a pole attached to the bumper. This is Alabama, so the Confederate flag is common but I’ve never seen the two-sided version. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-confederate-flaggers-parading-in-your-streets/725553.md?page=8)