Confederate flag sales booming (UT)

[struggle4progress]

Robby Poffenberger | Assistant News Editor

A Provo flag store owner is reporting a large increase in sales of the Confederate flag this summer ...

According to UVU Integrated Studies Professor Alan Clarke, Utahns’ support of the flag likely stems from a combination of historic Confederate ties and a libertarian culture.

“A lot of Confederates came out here (to Utah) after the Civil War,” Clarke said. “I suspect that many people here do have ancestry to the South. Maybe not a majority, but a lot of ex-Confederates came out west” ...

“There are quite frankly … great historical misconceptions about what the Civil War was all about,” he said. “It stems from the fact that in 1915 some historians at Columbia (University) managed to give great popularity to a sort of mystical South that never existed—a gallant South that was fighting for states rights and so forth.”
He went on to say that Texas’ Resolution of Succession, signed at the beginning of the war, mentions slavery 22 times, and that all major figures of the confederacy said slavery was the primary reason why they seceded ...

http://www.uvureview.com/2015/08/31/confederate-flag-sales-booming/

[randys1]

1. Flag exists solely to express desire to own Black people, period.

[struggle4progress]

3. +

[jmowreader]

4. They'd settle for poor whites, Hispanics or Asians if there was a shortage of Blacks

The whole mystique of the South revolves around the plantation owners' lifestyle - a lifestyle, based on the sale of cheap commodities, that couldn't be sustained if you have to pay your employees.

[randys1]

5. I have always believed that. Even if it came down to it, white slaves.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. The sale of cheap commodities could be sustained by paying employees

in company scrip, redeemable only at overpriced company stores

[Lint Head]

2. Must be a lot of treason lovers out there.

[LeftyMom]

7. The dominant religion in Utah is explicity racist.

People who believe that dark skin is a curse from God and He'll turn people white again if they behave* are actually racist???!? Who could have guessed????

*Yes, the current edits of LDS scriptures say this. Often and explicitly. It's a major plot point and not an obscure part of the text.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Who cares? Let racist jackasses be racist jackasses