I was actually thinking of retiring to South Carolina.
I, and my money, will stay put now.
Of course, my decision will be offset by the huge spike in Black tourism the state is sure to enjoy going forward.
The Confederate flag could easily rise again as an important symbol for slavery...a new slavery...a symbol of the huge loss of individual freedoms we are all experiencing daily. That the Confederate flag is already seen as a symbol for slavery by the people , and now having it banned, is a perfect storm for this as a new symbol for these times. It is coming to represent the new nanny state slavery ... PC, invasive personal “rules”, foods we cannot eat, the taking over of mud puddles in our back yards, banning coal for “global warming” (a hoax)..... the list is long and growing longer each day. I have purchased a Confederate flag ... and when SC takes it down from the Confederate Memorials (the only place it is flying on government land) that will be the signal for me to begin flying the flag protesting my own personal Neo-slavery. Yes I live in SC, but I am from Indiana ... so this isn’t a “southern” thing. This flag, showing up in the north would be even more symbolic. I do believe this symbol for slavery will rise again, protesting a kind of slavery equally as dangerous as with no Lincoln in the wings to set us free. And once again, history is proving the liberals and Democrats are the slave masters as they have always been throughout history."
Excellent post and bears repeating.
Today, the Confederate Flag represents a valiant fight against tyranny and oppression, and of course, slavery.
They already have Black Bike Week in Myrtle Beach every Memorial Day weekend for the past 35 years. Southerners as a whole are not nearly as race-prejudiced as Northerners. The prejudice that did exist under Jim Crow was led and enforced by Democrat power brokers and their gangs of useful idiots, while the more genteel or Christian average Southerner just tried to get along politely. In my experience, many poor whites experienced the same "classism" as blacks in the old days of Southern class systems. When my husband and I, both northern whites with college degrees, lived at Fort Benning before he went to Viet Nam, we tried to attend the Opera House, but were denied admission because he was not an officer. The highest concentration of blacks state-by-state is still in the South. White northern liberal snobs sneer about racism in the South, never having spent any time there, yet they live in gated communities, flee to suburbs and send their kids to carefully gerrymandered schools.