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Flying the Flag of Fairness: A modest proposal to resolve the Confederate flag crisis...
Mother Jones ^ | Tue Jan. 18, 2000 4:00 AM EST | By Mat Honan

Posted on 07/09/2015 8:05:43 AM PDT by Red Badger

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FROM JANUARY 2000...................Some things never change....................
1 posted on 07/09/2015 8:05:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
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" They fly the flag because they're proud of losing. Southerners want their children, and their children's children, to gaze upwards at the red, white, and blue banner, and to know that they come from a long line of losers.

Liberals don't realize that they come off so petty and childish, do they?

2 posted on 07/09/2015 8:09:06 AM PDT by uncitizen (PC is lying, any way you look at it)
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of interest is that the Southern states which have proudly claimed their Confederate heritage over the many years, have also sacrificed in war more, per capita, of their young men to the United States of America, the Stars and Stripes, than any other region of the nation.


3 posted on 07/09/2015 8:11:57 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Seriously, I wonder how long before we see the Confederate sculptures on Stone Mountain, Georgia dynamited by the gov’t.


4 posted on 07/09/2015 8:14:13 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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The White House started this latest Confederate flag DISTRACTION and he’s still not getting his Race Riot


5 posted on 07/09/2015 8:16:09 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Red Badger
Wonder where I can get my flag made.


6 posted on 07/09/2015 8:16:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Red Badger

There’s Freepers on here who agree with the article.


7 posted on 07/09/2015 8:17:55 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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I think the doofus author missed a couple of redneck stereotypes.


8 posted on 07/09/2015 8:18:24 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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This is what is funny.

I’m sure they exist somewhere, but I have yet to hear a southerner seething with hatred for the US, per se. Often, more patriotic than any other given region.

The only time they hate the US is for the Civil War.

The only time liberals hate the US is...well, everything else. They only love the US lock-step for the Civil War.

Tells you a bit about the mythology of the CW and aftermath, doesn’t it?


9 posted on 07/09/2015 8:20:57 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Set aside South Carolina as a sort of white homeland.

Ah, northern racism and hate. South Carolina is 30 percent black. Maryland is the only non-Dixie state that has a higher percentage (31), and Mississippi is the only state that is significantly higher (37 percent)

LA and GA are also right around 30 percent...Bama is at 26 percent...
NC, DE, and and VA are around 20 percent...
TN, FL, ARK, NY, IL, NJ, and MI are around 15 percent...

The other 33 states are all under 13 percent... including 20 states that are under 5 percent... including liberal Oregon (2 percent) and NH (1.2 percent).

So, racist ass-hat, what do you propose to do with the 1.4 million SC blacks when you create this "white homeland" for the 100+ million whites who do not believe as you do?

10 posted on 07/09/2015 8:22:54 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Mother Jones, just what I read when I want to feel like a communist left wing homosexual....


11 posted on 07/09/2015 8:24:26 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I love my dogs, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
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Mother Jones — the looniest of the looney left, the San Francisco of magazines.


12 posted on 07/09/2015 8:27:56 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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(DC, by the way is 51 percent black, 9 percent Hispanic, and 38 percent white.)


13 posted on 07/09/2015 8:28:21 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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The White House started this latest Confederate flag DISTRACTION and he’s still not getting his Race Riot

If Obama had wanted to start this latest Confederate flag distraction then he would have been trampled in the rush of Nikki Haley and other Republicans, North and South, condemning the flag and calling for it to be taken down. I don't see hanging this one on him.

14 posted on 07/09/2015 8:29:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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There’s Freepers on here who agree with the article.

A lot.

15 posted on 07/09/2015 8:30:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Teacher317

Those Deep South are more likely to become North America’s black national homeland in the New America.

Just as an aside, here’s the 10 whitest states:
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Iowa, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Kentucky and North Dakota


16 posted on 07/09/2015 8:33:44 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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I believe the stupid musings indicated that SC would suck out so many whites from (racist - white of course) MS and AL (?) that basically those 2 would be black land.

I take slight umbrage to your MD comment. Dixie was defined by the Mason-Dixon, and that is the northern border of our state. So, considering MD the northern-most southern state, it fits in (and thus no genuine yankee state has many blacks).

I love how easy it is for these white liberals (invariably yankees) to talk when they don’t know anything about being with black people.


17 posted on 07/09/2015 8:59:21 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Those Deep South are more likely to become North America’s black national homeland in the New America.

Check out the history of the current mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.

18 posted on 07/09/2015 9:30:21 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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No, they don’t; but they don’t care, anyhow.

they don’t have facts, they don’t have logic, but snark, they’ve got plenty of.


19 posted on 07/09/2015 9:54:05 AM PDT by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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I think the doofus author missed a couple of redneck stereotypes.

Yep. Not a word about white lightnin' or cousin lovin'!

20 posted on 07/09/2015 10:22:23 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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