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Being a transplant from South Florida (Ft Lauderdale) and living here for the last year, I have found absolutely no form of racism in The Triangle. In South Fla you could see some form of racism because of all of the immigrants and every immigrant has something against each other. That's why in Miami you have little Haiti, little Havana, the African American area and the White area. and everybody stays in there own area and does business in there own area and if you have to go to another area the way you are treated is like a piece of dirt.....RB.
I have only lived south of the Mason-Dixon line for 2 years out of my entire life. And I've lived a LOT of places. And even though 20 years were spent on the West Coast, I'm sure Southerners would call me a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee.
But I have no problem with displaying the Confederate flag. Why? The Civil War happened folks. It's part of our history. We fly the Irish flag at home--does that mean we support all causes Irish? Absolutely not. It's part of our heritage.
I'm sure there are some Confederate Flag flyers who still wish the South had won the war. Taking slavery out of the picture, the war destroyed the South: literally and economically. In fact, slavery, wrong as it is, was a major building block of the economy in the south. Hard to run all those huge plantations with a major payroll to meet every week!
I'm sorry-I digressed. What I am trying to say is that overall, I'm more worried about the neo-Nazis living in the mountains of Idaho and Montana than I am about some person flying the Confederate flag on their front lawn.
South Carolina hanging the Confederate Flag has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with history and heritage. SC is proud for standing up for state rights (although embarrassed by slavery). Political opportunists like Jesse Jackson have tried to make the flag into an issue, but it says more about them and those that blindly follow them that it says about the southerners who cling to their heritage.
South Carolina hanging the Confederate Flag has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with history and heritage. SC is proud for standing up for state rights (although embarrassed by slavery). Political opportunists like Jesse Jackson have tried to make the flag into an issue, but it says more about them and those that blindly follow them that it says about the southerners who cling to their heritage.
I don't think there's anything wrong with Southerners "clinging" to their heritage. I think everyone should be "clinging" to their heritage! Where would we be without our sense of history?
I saw the confederate flag fairly often in NC...mostly in the form of hats, bumper stickers, t-shirts, and license plates. I never really thought of it as racist, I just thought it was stupid because it symbolized secession. It seemed like southerners were celebrating the fact that the country had been torn apart and the south formed its own nation for a while....and almost like they wish they still had their own nation. I know most southerners are very patriotic and you can almost always bet that if you see a confederate flag waving there is an American Flag right next to or above it, But I don't see the need to fly, wear, or display a flag that represents that dark period of division in America. I'm even more confused when I see he confederate flag in states that weren't even part of the confederacy....Maryland, Kentucky...even rural PA!
btw I also agree with one of the first responses ... NC and SC are NOT the same.
MY grandmother (from Southern Alabama) used to refer to it as "that unpleasantness from some years back.." Now THERE's a euphemism....
"...the late unpleasantness..."
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