• Cave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait until you see the Confederate flags in PA. Ya know, where the battle of Gettysburg happened. Very much not a southern state. It’s wild seeing this shit in my neighborhood.

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      Confederate flags are in canada and California, it’s just a flag for racists to roleplay with, the confederacy won’t rise again anywhere.

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        It won’t “rise again” but the spirit of it absolutely has resurfaced in other forms, and will continue too so long as a significant number of people in this country identify with white supremacy and abject hatred.

        The original KKK were effectively the remnants of the Confederate army + new recruits. And it’s continued to find new banners in the generations since.

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          It very much depends on what you mean when you say “the spirit of it,” which I think you have to admit, is open to a lot of interpretation.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      So much not a southern state that its bottom border is literally the Mason-Dixon line. Some people are, indeed, whack.

      I have seen Confederate battle flags flying on trucks and houses in and around Gettysburg, no less. I get the impression that people are not doing this for historical reenactment purposes…

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      Seriously. I live in the Cleveland area of Ohio. We are geographically closer to Canada than the Mason Dixon. There’s still an abundance of hoople heads flying confederate flags.

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      Even worse are the ones I see flying in West Virginia – you know, the state that only exists because its inhabitants didn’t want to secede along with the rest of Virginia.