‘Complicated’ Support for Confederate Flag in White South

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By RICHARD FAUSSET
JULY 7, 2015

... At Kimball’s General Store, a popular meeting place here, a man who declined to give his name blamed blacks for the new assault on the flag, and muttered a racial slur. Near Mr. Heath’s office at the county courthouse, a pickup parked beside a weatherworn house sported a pair of Confederate flags, and a window sticker that read “American Nazi Party.”

Just across the county line, the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar has operated as a scandalous open secret. Its website features two Confederate battle flags, the description, “The Original Klan, Klam & Oyster Bar,” and a stunningly virulent collection of racist signs. Patrons are confronted with a selection of crude cartoons and graffiti, and a menu that declares, on the appetizer page, “We cater to hangins’” ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/us/a-georgia-county-where-the-rebel-flag-is-still-revered.html?_r=0

[Human101948]

1. There is not one thing complicated about it...those who support it are racist assholes.

They may claim (even convincing themselves) that it is a matter of "heritage." Well, that heritage is slavery and later Jim Crow and then resistance to the Civil Rights movement. If they don't see that, they are pathetic, stupid, self deluding assholes.

That is my pronouncement.