So if you lived in lily-white Mayberry you’d be showing your true colors?
No I never had any interest in Confederate memorabilia.
I was simply noting that anyone that does openly display the flag puts themselves at risk. Its too closely associated with skin heads and other white power groups.
Other deep south states like Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Have stronger ties to the historical past. You do see Confederate emblems there. Arkansas has never been considered traditional, old south.
I really wish people would stop implying that black people will explode into a violent rage at the sight of a Confederate flag. I grew up in Atlanta, Chocolate City, and the Confederate flag was all over the place. Including the state capitol. Black people hated it and rallied against it. And yet for decades, white people folks didn’t have nary a problem shoving it in our faces.
Richmond is about 40% black. And yet we have Confederate flaggers parading in the street. No one has been flown into a murderous rage yet. The worse that has happened was that someone (race unknown) threw a bottle at one of the trucks and caused a dent.
Several years ago, I was driving around in Newark, NJ. The blue pick-up truck in front of me had a Confederate flag on its bumper. I’m sure the driver lived to tell about it.
Offensive, yes, but why ill-advised?
There are numerous college football teams called “the Rebels,” teams whose fans wave Confederate flags after touchdowns. And yet, these teams rarely have trouble attracting black running backs, receivers, safeties and linebackers.
Black people may not like Confederate memorabilia, but many have learned to ignore it.
Flying a Confederate flag in your front yard is more provocative. I haven’t seen anyone do that in my state in over 30 years. I guess its different in the deep south states.
bumper stickers or car plates are less noticeable. But in todays political climate they are a bad idea too.
Going to North Little Rock after dark is ill-advised for any life form. :eek:
Pine Bluff Arkansas is the absolute worst city in the entire state. A real cesspool of gangs and shootings. Try driving through there with a Flag bumper sticker. Their are areas where it would be like driving through DC.
http://www.inquisitr.com/532225/pine-bluff-arkansas-americas-most-dangerous-little-town/
Not a one in Wisconsin, and I’ve been driving all over the state the last few months.
Just saw big one on a pole in the back of a pickup truck in central Illinois today. Seems to be a statement -> I have a small mind
Are you really of the belief that this kind of thing happens all over the US with any kind or regularity? If so, I am shocked and you need to get out more. I once saw a flag mounted in the bed of a truck here in Colorado and it was so unusual that I wrote a post here about it. That was several years ago. I haven’t seen one since.
I see quite a bit of that one around here…it’s a Tea Bagger symbol now though.
Since the flag was removed in Charleston, I have seen a couple of pickup trucks out on the road with comically oversized Confederate flags mounted in the beds. The one that I see on a regular basis is starting to look very ragged.
I thought New Orleans was Chocolate City.
I just saw a Confederate flag flying from a pickup in Durango CO.
…add two more today. One might be repeat business. The other stood out as clearly unique because it was a “two for one” deal. It had both a giant flag flying from the pickup truck and a smaller flag flying on the antenna. Running tally is 9-10 unique confirmed car/truck flags and one more possible car flag. I have yet to see one that doesn’t look new.
It’s a seems like a good time to be a vendor who still sells them. Competition is down and demand appears to be up.
I live in NY, and off the top of my head I can think of three houses in my area that have Confederate flags in the yards.
I would imagine, that for most people who see the flag as racist, it’s just one more small reminder, out of thousands of other little reminders of racism that they began to experience in childhood. You learn to deal with it, since the alternative would be living in a constant state of fury.
Not in the greater Sacramento area.
Recently we did have people demonstrating for, and flying the flag of, the Great State of Jefferson on several overpasses on I-80 between Sacramento and Roseville.
DC is chocolate city, after the Parliament album of the same name.
There’s a difference between harmless loons and racist ignorant bigots.
Well, stop looking in the mirror. 
I actually drove past those morons on the overpass.