The Mikado
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« on: June 24, 2015, 03:40:24 PM » |
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A lot of people in the South today, including in the Republican Party in the South, are either Northern transplants who moved south in the 1960s-1980s or the children of such people, and don't really have the ancestral connection to the old Stars and Bars* as people whose ancestors have been in Dixie for 200 years do. To a lot of people, including right wing businessmen and such, the Confederate flag is an embarrassment and "bad for business."
*Yes, I know that the X-shaped flag is not the Stars and Bars, shut up. Just because you're one of the few people who knows that the X-shaped battle flag isn't the actual flag of the Confederacy doesn't mean you need to pedantically correct everything.
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