Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, said at the time that he “never flew that flag with any hate in my heart.”
“Everybody knows where I stand and what I’m about,” he told the Free Press. “It’s not about hatred or being a racist. I like Southern rock music, and a lot of people died under that flag for beliefs they had, right or wrong. But it stands for rebel, and my love of Southern rock.”
“Everybody knows where I stand and what I’m about,” he told the Free Press. “It’s not about hatred or being a racist. I like Southern rock music, and a lot of people died under that flag for beliefs they had, right or wrong. But it stands for rebel, and my love of Southern rock.”
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Yeah.
When I was in high school in Northern California In the mid to late 80’s the Confederate flag guys were in to being rebels and they liked southern rock - Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels etc...
They were A-holes and bullies, but it wasn’t about racism.
The Democrats, on the other hand, did use it as a symbol of racism and for governmental oppression and authoritarianism.