[CatherineofAragon]

"The Rebel Flag goes WAY beyond the South - There ain't a country boy anywhere in this nation that doesn't know exactly what that flag means... Letting someone else define what it means won't work even a little bit."

Yep, you're right. Now that I think of it, I believe cripplecreek has mentioned seeing it in his neck of the woods.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah its not uncommon around here in southern Michigan. A guy just outside town has a big mural painted on the side of his pole barn with a tattered confederate flag on a mountaintop.

[roamer_1]

Yep, you're right. Now that I think of it, I believe cripplecreek has mentioned seeing it in his neck of the woods.

I'm in the Rocky Mountain West (NW MT), and it is not uncommon to see a Rebel flag flying, especially out in the brush - But more importantly, it is pervasive in Country culture - It is very common to see Rebel flag stickers on trucks, patches on jackets, hat pins, coffee cups - I think you'd be hard pressed not to find it represented somewhere, somehow, in any country home.

And I rode rodeo back in my misspent youth - Been all over the Rocky Mountain West, and the Dakotas... I have kin down in Kansas and Missouri... In all those years, in all those places, 'teenage rebellion' from the country kids always involved that Rebel Flag.

So that 'Southren Pride' is part and parcel with 'Country Pride', right along with the 'Rebellion against Tyranny', both are intrinsic in Country Life... Perhaps not to the degree evident in the South, but enough to know what it means.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I saw it quite a bit when I lived in the UK. Had a late friend who was a teacher and former biker in Yorkshire who had the CF tattoo.