Date: 2013-09-30 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com
I live just down the road a piece from James toward Detroit, and I see Confederate flags around often enough for me to notice. I'm torn between wondering why people around here do it, and actually not wanting to know.

Also, you know what? I think any of these punditoids and pols who want to turn Canada into US 2: Canadian Boogaloo should just emigrate. I'm sure, being the privileged sorts for whom eliminating Medicare et al wouldn't bother them, they'd be able to sail right through on some sort of waiver visa for the very rich or other...
Edited Date: 2013-09-30 03:23 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-09-30 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keithmm.livejournal.com
The Confederate flag doesn't have the same historical connections as in the US so it's seen as just generic "rebel" imagery. It's similar to the thing you see in East Asia where there's this minor fetish for Nazi imagery: it's because the uniforms look cool and they don't have the same sort of visceral reaction because of the more direct historical connection to them as do those of us from North America and Europe.

When I idly pointed out to one guy (an Inuk, as it happens) that he was flying the flag representing slave-owning assholes on his ATV, he was taken aback because he hadn't actually thought about it. It came off immediately.

Date: 2013-09-30 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] burger-eater.livejournal.com
According to a report on NPR yesterday, the movie GONE WITH THE WIND is really big in, of all places, North Korea, because the people of NK are very sympathetic to Confederate narrative of Yankee oppression.

Date: 2013-09-30 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com
As it happens, Diane Francis did emigrate: she was born in Chicago. Kind of like Margaret Wente, who now that I think about it comes from the same general region.

Date: 2013-09-30 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
Did she study under Milton Friedman?

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