luvsJack
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- Apr 3, 2007
Yup. I can't believe the increase in Confederate Flags I see flying in my town....in Minnesota. Not exactly the deep south where people "claim" there is some non-racist reason to display that thing. But, I've definitely noticed a whole bunch more since 2016. I sure it's just random, right? LOL
We noticed when traveling and DH has noticed going across country in his truck, that there are places well outside the south that there are more confederate flags on display than anywhere around here. If I had to guess, outside of the south, racism is the reason for the flag but I don't know that. Which is why its assumed (as you have shown in your post) that everyone has it for that reason when its simply not true.
Here its usually young guys with big trucks that have one in their truck (actually this group includes whites and blacks)--mostly not racist, just rednecks, historical homes where you would sort of expect them--not racist but part of the history of the home, and a few that do put them somewhere outside their home but those are actually very few and far between and those I can't say whether they are or they are not, don't know them. May be more in the north part of the state, I don't know about that.
And what you are implying by your date is ridiculous. Racism has been around for a very, very long time, no one around now is responsible for it.
Way back when this state was voting on the state flag and whether to remove the stars and bars from it, we noticed the confederate flags in other areas, that was well before 2016.