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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOne of those moments that makes you want to say "really?"
Yesterday, I drove from Detroit to St. Helen, MI. Near Frankenmuth, I stopped for gas and a snack.
The woman in front of me in line at the check-out bought one item: A Confederate flag plate for the front of her car. She was so proud of it that she installed it in the parking lot before driving away.
Where are the rocks that such people live under and why do they bother slithering out into public?
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)more like the hired field hands..
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Makes 'em easier to identify and avoid. I don't communicate well with stupid.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)You already know what you're dealing with.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)The best you can hope for is a confrontation, and although I enjoy a good heated debate, arguing with a bigot is rarely satisfying.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)No need to guess or find out the hard way.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Not tons of them, mind you, but some, so it's not unusual to see it once in a while. There are a lot of people who have southern roots in the Detroit area, their parents and grandparents generation came up from state like KY, TN, and AL to work in the auto industry during the boom times of the 1950s and 1960s.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)We would sell flags, T-shirts, sunglasses and knives. The biggest sellers in the flags were the Confederate ones. I had no control over what was being stocked. I just sold the stuff. People would ask for Confederate license plate, which we did not sell. Acworth, GA, is a very redneck area.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Or, free ammo?
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)We did have ammo, but it was not free.
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)We were on a road trip to North Carolina, and I had no idea what it meant. It makes me sick now to think of it.
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)...called Southern Cross. I thought, classy. Even on this game I can't get away from that bullshit.