I live about a mile from the capitol building in Texas. I haven’t seen a confederate flag of any sort in years. I would not enter a business or home that displayed one.
It appears you’re confused about terminology.
The “Stars & Bars” was the first Confederate national flag: File:Flag of the Confederate States (1861–1863).svg - Wikipedia
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The flag at the center of the current flail is properly called the Confederate Battle Flag: File:Battle flag of the Confederate States of America (1-1).svg - Wikipedia Which is found in both square and rectangular shapes.
I saw one! I finally saw an SUV trailing a bigass Confederate flag today! I feel like I just sighted a rare bird. Stupidus racisculus. 
As I mentioned upthread, I live in the southern Appalachians which, despite its geography, was not known for being a stronghold of the Confederacy. Not a whole lot of stars-n-bars going on around here.
Well, I saw a little parade here in Columbia, Missouri today. Maybe 30 people walking down the sidewalk next to one of our busier streets. Some had American flags. Some had the contemporary version of the Confederate flag. Some were carrying both. One guy, opting for historical accuracy I suppose, was carrying what appeared to be the third national flag of the CSA (like this: File:Flag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg - Wikipedia).
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It looked like they were walking toward one of the predominantly black neighborhoods in town.
I saw one last weekend in Arroyo Grande, California!:eek:
Huh. Today there was also an NAACP rally here in town. NAACP rally in Columbia shows solidarity with national marchers
That the Confederate flag group chose today to celebrate their heritage can only be a strange coincidence.
1 new addition to my rolling count. I also saw one that upgraded his to a new flag. It’s now combines a motorcycle image with the CBF - winged skull and “Ride or Die” superimposed in the middle. Since I hadn’t seen any that looked anything but newish I think he’s bought two since the scuffle started. In addition I saw a CBF truck hitch cover/attachment thingee.
Totals:
10-11 unique and confirmed vehicle flag sightings
1 unconfirmed possible
1 truck hitch display
The other day in far suburban Chicago (Sugar Grove for those playing the home game), I saw an old pick-up truck with “coal roller” exhausts on the side and a Confederate battle flag waving from the rear of the cab. I even got to see the driver, some kid maybe twenty-one years old wearing a t-shirt with the same flag and the phrase “I’d rather be historically accurate than politically correct” which gave me a good internal laugh.
Anyway, for a kid living in northern Illinois, he seemed REALLY invested in the flag. Or maybe just in trying to make a scene of himself.
It’s the opening ceremonies of the Darwin Awards! Today in the bad decisions category, we feature…
So here’s a little more about the rally in Columbia. I was apparently wrong about the group heading for the black neighborhood. It looks like they were content to just make a spectacle of themselves at an overpass over I-70.
They were associated with a group called Overpasses for America. Their website is a good read. http://overpassesforamerica.com
They want to raise awareness of the facts that we are losing our rights and the Constitution is being trampled. Because nothing says respect for civil rights and the Constitution like the Confederate flag.
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I live in an interesting area for this sort of thing; at the far end of a Civil War Union state near the border of a Civil War neutral state; Confederate battle flags are unaccountably well-loved here. What is being communicated I can never seem to get to the bottom of.
There are a couple of new truck-mounted flags in my town, but I don’t think anyone had to go out and buy a new one for the recent occasion - they were already on the walls of garages and other unfinished, manly places.
Back in high school, they were popular on shirts, and a couple of local cranks have them standing on proper flagpoles in their yards.
I live near this, for example:
[URL=“SCV to Raise Confederate Flag in New Park off I-24 | WKMS”]
(that article is from 2012 - this is nothing new)
Missing link?
http://wkms.org/post/scv-raise-confederate-flag-new-park-i-24
Not sure if I did the link right on that last post.
That’s just another Liberal Secular Humanist LIE!!! We didn’t evolve from no dadgummed apes!!1!
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.
Here in my leafy suburb of Houston, I’ve seen a total of three in the past week. All were flying from jacked-up pickups with huge wheels, which I guess doesn’t come as a total shock.
Since the Charleston shooting, I haven’t seen any while bopping around urban and suburban Atlanta.
Two weeks ago, however, I was in southeastern Pennsylvania, in the York area, and I saw probably five or six, flying from homes. Seemed odd. Saw a fair number in Gettysburg, too, but those were mostly on businesses selling Civil War memorabilia or Battle of Gettysburg souvenirs; I imagine those flags were more advertising than protest.
The purpose of the trip was to meet my mother-in-law’s extended family, and a couple of times I was asked about the flag. They seemed surprised to hear that me say that whatever noble or virtuous, or even harmless, associations that flag may have once had (and I used to hang one on my bedroom wall, in honor of my Army of Northern Virginia veteran great-grandfather), it’s been irredeemably tainted by its racist post-Civil War use, and I’d be fine with never seeing it again. I realized when I was in my twenties that no matter what I might mean by displaying the battle flag, people like DrDeth would automatically make some assumptions about me for doing so.
Apparently, there’s been some talk about taking it down at the Gettysburg battlefield, and my in-laws thought that was just silly. I pointed out that the French don’t fly the swastika at Omaha Beach, nor the Italians at Anzio.
Gainesville?!! You’re thinking of Tallahassee.
Between income disparity, blue-on-black violence, and institutionalized racism, I imagine black folks have more important things to worry about.
I have seen something very odd, a couple of times: black guys wearing CBF head kerchiefs. I asked around among my black co-workers; one of them said it was about reppin’ the Dirty South. But he thought it was weird, too.
We haven’t had a real conflict here since the lamented ‘Pig War’ of 1859. There were unsubstantiated reports of someone driving around English Camp waving a barbequed rib, but no flags were mentioned.