The idiot with the Confederate flag in the Capitol is from Delaware.

[SunSeeker]

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"A man who was seen in the Capitol holding a Confederate flag during last week’s riot by supporters of President Donald Trump turned himself in to authorities on Thursday.

Kevin Seefried and his son Hunter surrendered to the U.S. Marshals' office Thursday morning in Wilmington, Delaware, the FBI confirmed to NBC News.

The Seefrieds face one count each of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and depredation of government property, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

Kevin Seefried admitted to investigators in a voluntary interview that he had brought the Confederate flag from his home in Delaware, where it is usually displayed outside, according to charging documents."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-holding-confederate-flag-capitol-during-pro-trump-riot-turns-n1254307?cid=referral_taboolafeed


So much for the claim that the Confederate battle flag just represents "Southern pride." These guys are from Delaware. The Confederate battle flag represents white supremacy. Period.

[FreepFryer]

1. Huh? The article and your excerpt both say he is from Delaware. (Nt)

[SunSeeker]

8. Sorry, I fixed it. Same point though. The guys are freaking yankees.

[FreepFryer]

9. True enough. Tbh, I was just glad the Canadian rumor turned out false :)

These people are cosplaytriots.

[SunSeeker]

14. What Canadian rumor? nt

[FreepFryer]

15. That was an in-line rumor on one of the most viewed twitter threads after he was named.

Not sure if he shares the name w a Canadian but it was claimed that he lived in CAN and ran a bike gang.

Clearly the reality (Delaware residing open seditionist) is waaaaay more cool.

[mahina]

2. What a crappy father.

And I agree with your conclusion wholeheartedly.

[SunSeeker]

16. And crappy neighbor. He flew that Confederate flag outside his home.

His neighbors, I am sure, were not surprised to hear he was involved.

[CatMor]

3. Yes it does...

if you drive around rural areas in the north they are always around. The only good thing about it is the flag identifies the racists for what they are, deplorable.

[GoneOffShore]

17. Not only the rural areas - drive around South Philadelphia and you'll encounter the traitors flag.

Plus there are people up in Northeast Philadelphia of the same ilk.

There's a whole thread on Facebook regarding a guy in a semi-gentrified neighborhood of Philadelphia where I used to live who has up the traitor's flag, pmurT flags, etc, etc. He's pretty far out there and all the neighbors can't stand him.

[ornotna]

5. Delaware

He's from Delaware.

[SunSeeker]

13. Yes.

I fixed it. Same point though. These guys weren’t from the South.

[ornotna]

20. Agreed

He flew that flag in his yard.

[fearnobush]

6. I've been to southern Delaware many times. They call it slower lower For a reason.

I’ve also been to rural Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana Etc. Out of all those places there is none quite like interior southern Delaware.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Some of those small eastern states surprised me...

... in the past for having any rural areas at all. Lol!

I should visit those states someday. The upper NE USA and some other eastern states (such as DE) are about the only ones that I've never visited in the continental USA. Yet that area is the most amenable to interstate travel because of less distance.

[NNadir]

7. He's from Delaware, a former slave state, albeit one which did not secede in 1861.

[SunSeeker]

12. There were slaves in all 13 colonies, but Delaware was never a Confederate state.

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 It was not until late into the Revolutionary War period that the former New England colonies began outlawing slavery fully. Vermont was first, followed by Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island in the 1840s. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/new-england-colonies-use-slaves/12th-grade/ Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation plan freed the slaves in the rebellious states, but those in border states like Delaware were not affected until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865, when Delaware finally became a free state, even though it was always a Union state.

[appalachiablue]

18. Delaware's rural southern region and the border area

of Maryland had an active crime ring in the early 19th century that kidnapped blacks (slave and free) and transported or sold them to states in the deep south- as in the story of Solomon Northup. Eastern Maryland also had many 'slave growing farms' then which sold people south when cotton was rising. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass are two notable black people from that area which is very racist to this day.

States that didn't join the Confederacy could still have horrible views on race. I lived in and have been going to Delmarva since childhood with Md. relatives who have been there for many years. There's also West Virginia which never had much slavery at all, seceded from Virginia in 1861 when the Civil War started and joined the Union, but is now considered 'southern' by the federal Census Bureau which is nuts.

[JI7]

10. It represents white supremacy. Always has.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

19. Northwest of Chicago

In the northwest counties outside of Chicago there are many confederate flags as well as Trump flags. Wisconsin as well.

[oswaldactedalone]

21. So with a son named Hunter

will reich-wing media begin referring to them as the Seefried Crime Family?