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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo the Guy Flying a Confederate Flag in Exeter, New Hampshire
http://emilycheath.com/2015/07/03/to-the-guy-flying-a-confederate-flag-in-exeter-new-hampshire/Part of me wanted to ask obvious questions: You know you are in New Hampshire, right? And, you know New Hampshire was not a part of the Confederacy?
I ask this because Im not so sure you do. Here we are in a northern town, a place that gave her sons up to the Union Army and lost them on the battlefields of the Civil War. A place where locals organized early against slavery and led the charge against it across the country. A place where 150 years ago that flag would have been seen as a symbol of treason.
I grew up in the South where I saw plenty of Confederate flags. My college campus had a small Confederate cemetery on it and every Confederate Memorial Day (do you know when that is, by the way?) theyd be decorated with those flags. And I lived in a state where that Confederate emblem was on the flag for far too long.
Must be southern New Hampshire. And I sincerely hope that Exeter is nowhere near Marlborough, or Pitt will make this loser wish he'd never been born.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)Exeter is Central NH but lots of Mass folks driving by and through getting to lakes region.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)If youre going through Exeter to get to the lakes region, youre lost.
I was thinking of Epson.
But taking 95 to 16 is a good backdoor approach.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)I work in Hampton and have to take 95 to 16 home. This time of year there are more MA plates than NH any day of the week. Luckily there are still some really back roads that only the locals know about. No way to avoid the General Sullivan Bridge though. And thats the real killer.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)My parents have a place up in the lakes region for the last 50 years. I have not been there in a while.
With GPS and all the other tech there are very few hidden roads anymore. I am near the Cape so this time of year is not my ideal commute either.
Just mentioning The Cape makes my jaw clench. You get all of us clogging your roads and we get all of you. Its such a beautiful area though. Heres to our mutual summer traffic misery...
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)The same thing. They were in the north during the Civil War and they are there now.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)so you can avoid him like the plague he and his kind are.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)racist hate mongers doing this.
noa
(6 posts)Apparently the demand for the only state's flag with the confederate battle symbol on is more popular than ever on Amazon... that's a shame...
http://www.vocativ.com/news/208307/sales-of-the-mississippi-flag-are-soaring-on-amazon/
"According to Amazon.com, the Mississippi state flag is now one of the top-selling pennants on the website. Only the American flag, the state of California flag, and the Gadsden flag, which is a potent symbol among Libertarians, are more popular. The upper left corner of the Mississippi flag contains the Confederate battle emblem."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The marketplace caters to the lowest common demonstrator-- one of the reasons it's so effective.
ileus
(15,396 posts)aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)But more likely, a southerner crossed the Mason-Dixon line.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Damn things always made me cringe. He'll never understand why.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion
Third law: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.
As to why he's flying both flags, he and many like him have emotional, and intellectual ties to both.
It would be convenient if there were simple answers to everything but life is full of contradictions.
Thanks for the thread, KamaAina.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Probably some idiot with a chip on his shoulder who is DARING someone to knock it off. And someone will eventually. Pains me to no end that his stupidity will take up valuable police presence in a city with homicide, drugs and burglaries and not enough police officers to handle everything.
Of course it is NOT illegal for this idiot to fly that flag in the back of his truck. But like most things, one has to question whether or not it's a very wise thing to do at this moment in history.