Flying the rebel flag on your battered pickup ... why?

Bob wrote:For years I used to travel from here to Chicago 3 or 4 times a year and I always had to go through Kentucky.
From the time I hit the border below Bowling Green it was always like entering Deliverance country.  The weirdest toothless looking hicks everywhere.  
I was always so relieved when I could get beyond Louisville and into Indiana.
The place sucks.  It's full of racists and hicks and rednecks.  And really strange ones at that.
I don't blame you for coming to Florida.  I woulda got the hell out of that shithole too.  

Bob wrote:Most people don't get so giddy over hating their hometown,  Sal.

I feel sorry for you.  I love my adopted hometown.  I don't even know that much about my birth hometown.  Been there only twice since I was college age.  Nothing against it,  just don't know it.

PkrBum wrote:Until sal comes to terms with his responsibility for killing jesus, killing lincoln, enslaving blacks, eugenics, and nazis... etc.

Don't expect much honest reflection.

Salinsky wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Until sal comes to terms with his responsibility for killing jesus, killing lincoln, enslaving blacks, eugenics, and nazis... etc.

Don't expect much honest reflection.

Honest reflection?

You were born on third base and want to talk to us about natural selection.

Get a grip.

PkrBum wrote:

Pffft... I moved out before I was sixteen. Didn't talk to a family member for two years. I finished high school on my own... I got a scholarship on my own. I never asked anything from anybody. I decided to work hard. I lived in ghetto dumps. Fuck you.

Salinsky wrote:If only the travails of the white, Midwestern, tennis boy could be put into verse, it might take up an entire paragraph.

A pathetically, self-absorbed and entirely devoid of introspection paragraph of butthurt.

SheWrites wrote:I had been able to say that since my return to the great state of Florida I had no sightings of a rebel flag flying on a battered pickup.

So what did I encounter this morning?   A LOUD pickup truck, not in bad shape, AL tag, and a big tattered flag flying from the bed of the truck.

It was the epitome of stereotypical.  Loud, driving fast while weaving in and out of traffic, only thing missing was a horn playing Dixie a la Dukes of Hazard.

Definitely bringing attention to himself.

All other drivers on their way to work and school. Doing what normal people do.  Yet this one...

Wordslinger wrote:

SheWrites wrote:I had been able to say that since my return to the great state of Florida I had no sightings of a rebel flag flying on a battered pickup.

So what did I encounter this morning?   A LOUD pickup truck, not in bad shape, AL tag, and a big tattered flag flying from the bed of the truck.

It was the epitome of stereotypical.  Loud, driving fast while weaving in and out of traffic, only thing missing was a horn playing Dixie a la Dukes of Hazard.

Definitely bringing attention to himself.

All other drivers on their way to work and school. Doing what normal people do.  Yet this one...

As I stated earlier here, I've seen a half dozen pickups parading down highway 90 with flags.  Some are just the rebel flag, others with a rebel and American flag, and yesterday I saw a young black man in a battered pickup, parading the American flag.  Yessirree sir, this is indeed a bastion of racist conflict!  Again, I'd really like to know what the dudes with the rebel flags are trying to communicate -- they hate blacks and miss slavery?  They're "proud" of their southern heritage (including slavery)? Or are they the remnants of southern sore losers of the civil war?  I'd really like to know ...