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In reply to the discussion: The confederate flags are a nice touch... [View all]npk
(3,660 posts)I don't see the confederate flag much because I live in Atlanta and it takes a certain kind of balls to wave that rag around in my little enclave of town. To me I see the flags more these days at political rallies. Usually the people waving the flag hate the government and would love to see it overthrown. Are they racist? Sure. But I think it's more of a threat toward the Government than anything else.
I was traveling through Gainesville last summer, which is like 40 miles north of Atlanta and I saw a pick up truck with the confederate flag on the back. Of course, not to my surprise, a white redneck got out of the truck and started walking into a Quick Trip gas station. I asked him why he rides around with the confederate flag attached to his truck, and he stated that his house and land had been foreclosed on by the "government" and that the land and his home had been paid in full for decades. My guess is that he stopped paying his property taxes, but who knows. He rambled on that he wanted everyone to know that the government was using tyranny to take peoples land and give it to "minorities" who didn't own it. He also said he was an army vet and that if needed he would be prepared to overthrow the government if things didn't change. When I told him that flag had a legacy of being a symbol of racism and oppression, he just shrugged his shoulders and kept walking.
My guess is that this person believes that government is the real enemy and is another one of the sovereign citizens morons that you see a lot of in the mountain areas of Georgia.