Personal experience. I lived in the South and saw the flag all the time. Now I live in the West and see the flag very rarely. I also travel a lot, and things have not changed. It’s the Confederate flag, for God’s sake - of course you see it more in the South. What possible reason would someone not from the South choose to fly it?
News flash - when you order iced tea in the U.S., you are far more likely to find it sweetened in the South than in the rest of the country.
:eek: Thankfully we have no national Dukes of Hazzard fetish. 
It’s most likely they think it looks cool. Until I joined the SDMB, I had no idea that it was nothing more than a cool looking flag. One other thing though, is that some of our drivers do a stint in the US, so it could be a souvenir, again with them not knowing anything more. Other trucks I’ve seen have our flag, or the US one, and once a Maple leaf one.
As an aside, a client I visited Saturday was flying the US flag, as was the house 2 down. These were on proper flag poles that weren’t there a few weeks ago. My client, his wife, and daughter are Kiwi. In the 9 years I’ve done this job, I’ve only had one client who flew our flag.
About 3 weeks ago.
A pole planted in what appeared to be some kind of commercial dealership, cars or RV’s or something.
Northern Florida.
And, may I add, I do believe it was the most fucking ginormous flag of any kind that I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
The Confederate battle flag, aka St. Andrew’s Cross, is a flag flown by Confederates, is associated only with the Confederacy, and is the most well-known symbol of the Confederacy. That there were other official Confederate government flags is a piece of trivia of interest only to historians. In other words, the battle flag is the Confederate flag and vice versa, dude, get over it.
A coincidence that both the “Confederate flag” and the Japanese Rising Sun banner with the 16 rays, both their most recognized flags yet not the actual national flags, were each their naval ensigns.
"No, you dare not make war on trivia. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Trivia is king. "
I tried to buy one in VA but couldn’t find any store that sold them or would sell one to me.
Actually, it’s the naval *jack *(cite) , not the ensign, if we’re going to split that hair down to the final follicle. But still, for all practical purposes, it’s just the damned Confederate flag.
I also thought I heard Duelling Banjos in that neck of the woods, not that you asked.
1.0 Saturday.
2.0 Hanging on the front exterior wall of a double-wide.
3.0 Near a bike trail between Chillicothe and Frankfort, Ohio.
I’m not sure self-reporting tells us anything. People who haven’t seen one lately probably just aren’t posting to the thread.
And for people who have seen one, it was probably an exceptional event that stuck in their memory. You might see one Confederate flag on a thousand pickup trucks, but then you remember seeing that one flag and forget about the other 999 flag-free bumpers.
The OP wasn’t asking about the flag-free bumpers; he was asking about the bumper with the flag on it. I can also tell you I ate breakfast at Cracker Barrell yesterday, but that doesn’t make it exceptional.
And if the OP started a thread asking about posters’ last Cracker Barrel dining experience, the resulting thread would make it look like Cracker Barrel must be the most popular restaurant in the world, because the people who hadn’t eaten at Cracker Barrel wouldn’t post.
There were three questions in the OP. The first one wasn’t going to produce any useful data in a self reporting forum like this one.
The second one, I’m not sure what that data means.
The last one could and did provide useful data, although I don’t think it was what the OP expected.
Actually, in my experience, if you post a thread in Cafe Society for people who like something (a restaurant, a tv show, whatever), you’ll get lots of people coming in to talk about why they don’t like it.
The point is, whether they liked it or didn’t, the people who had eaten there would be the ones who posted, making it look like everyone eats there.
People who didn’t eat there or had never heard of it just wouldn’t post.
This strikes me as obvious, but it’s certainly your point to make if you want.
This strikes me as a content-free criticism, but you’re certainly welcome to post it.
Sorry I haven’t responded; I had a discogram done yesterday and it sort of put me out of commission for a while. Anyway, I consider it a flop because the questions I asked cannot really be answered in such a way as to provide meaningful results. It didn’t occur to me that people would view the thread more than once without responding; when it did occur to me, I realized that any conclusions drawn would be bogus. So, from the stand point of meaningful data, the thread is a flop. From the standpoint of being interesting, I suppose it is. I had hoped, selfishly, to find that the image of the flag would be more widespread geographically than the reports of sightings would indicate.