Nation's last Confederate flag manufacturer sees sales surge after Charlottesville (al.com)

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Updated on August 23, 2017 at 7:06 AM Posted on August 23, 2017 at 7:00 AM



By Anna Claire Vollers

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Rebel flag sales are up since Charlottesville. One north Alabama shop may be the only flag manufacturer in America meeting the increased demand.

Alabama Flag & Banner is located in a small strip near downtown Huntsville. Two years ago, the company began manufacturing the Confederate flag after retailers pulled it from their shelves in the wake of the mass shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. in which nine people were killed by a white supremacist who'd been photographed holding a Confederate flag.

The country's major flag manufacturers stopped producing rebel flags. Eventually, said longtime owner Belinda Kennedy, Alabama Flag & Banner became the go-to manufacturer for hundreds of retailers across the country looking to stock American-made Confederate flags. Online orders boomed, too.

Two weeks ago, after the deadly Charlottesville rally sparked a national debate about whether Confederate monuments should be removed from parks around the country, flag sales spiked again.

"After the church shooting (in 2015), Amazon and Walmart stopped selling (the flag) and people were afraid they wouldn't be able to buy it," she said. "And then you started seeing streets renamed, schools being renamed, mountains being renamed. And then people started getting angry.
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[Ilsa]

1. Another thirty years and hopefully,

Even less than half of those people will stop giving a shit.

I wish I could find a way for rain to turn those flags white. Like the white flag of surrender.

[shenmue]

2. Seriously, people suck

[Pope George Ringo II]

3. On the other hand

I recently met an individual who was embarrassed enough by Trump to take down the Confederate flags in the yard.

I know how much is wrong with that. Don't ask me if that's progress.

[haveahart]

4. 30 years from now, it won't even matter. Just like reading about Roman History.

[Turbineguy]

5. We're becoming like Palestine.

A broken State. Trump is our version of Arafat.

[heaven05]

6. I bet

66 million trump voter-racist are going to make these flag makers rich. Hate is a money maker....only in ameriKKKa... drip, drip, drip and then........

[ProudLib72]

7. American made flags

But if they went under, tRump would outsource some from China no doubt. "Send me 200,000 MAGA hats and 40,000 Confederate flags, ASAP!"