tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post5291680645025802529..comments2021-05-05T03:04:25.631-07:00Comments on Windham County: Pride in DixieCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post-77610497797862541152019-04-11T08:10:27.185-07:002019-04-11T08:10:27.185-07:00I agree with what Mark P wrote. It's about tri...I agree with what Mark P wrote. It's about tribalism and probably white supremacy and privilege. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post-18839556137507812232019-04-08T12:03:57.644-07:002019-04-08T12:03:57.644-07:00I live in a small/medium-sized town in NW Georgia....I live in a small/medium-sized town in NW Georgia. As you might expect, the Confederate flag is widely displayed, sometimes as car tags, sometimes as window stickers and sometimes as actual flags. I have not discussed with any of these people why they display the flag, but I have some suspicions. One is that there is probably a strong overlap with Trump voters, not too surprising in Georgia. Another is that they would vehemently deny that they are racists or that the flag itself symbolizes anything racist. The would probably also deny that the Civil War (or, as I like to call it, The Slave Owners Rebellion) has anything to do with slavery. It's all about culture and tradition and states' rights. But I also have a suspicion that if you scratch one of these people, you will find a racist. Maybe not a rabid racist, but someone who will occasionally, eventually, let slip their true feelings about race. They might object that they have black friends, and they may well, but I've heard enough white-to-white conversation to know that their friendships haven't completed obliterated their racism. I also fairly strongly suspect that anyone who displays that flag, no matter where, is using it as a tribal symbol. Connecticut flag-flyers are indicating that they are part of the same tribe as Georgia flag-flyers. It's the last, dying gasp (I hope) of white privilege and superiority.<br /><br />Maybe they don't believe it is their last, dying gasp, but I hope they are like a white South African that talked to a friend of mine years ago. He said apartheid would never end in South Africa, and the blacks would never gain political power.Mark Phttp://www.caniconfidimus.comnoreply@blogger.com