Honk for Confederate Pride

[GoodWitch58]

What I would like to see is our elected Representative Brown put some time and energy and publicity into an issue that is truly important to the people he is supposed to represent.

Like, maybe, health care, schools, roads, taxes, insurance, the list goes on...but he chooses to sponsor a bill about a vanity license plate!

Amazing...

 

[wrobert]

What I would like to see is our elected Representative Brown put some time and energy and publicity into an issue that is truly important to the people he is supposed to represent.

Like, maybe, health care, schools, roads, taxes, insurance, the list goes on...but he chooses to sponsor a bill about a vanity license plate!

Amazing...

Yep. What is it we have over a hundred at last count. He sponsored a bill for one of them, so I guess the other 99 people were just doing their job.

 

[TooFarTampa]

You cannot convince me that putting a symbol that has become so repulsive to so many people on a state license plate is a good idea, whether or not the constituency wants it, even if the message is meant to be something else.

That said, in the interest of fairness, more on this from the AP:

Rep. Donald Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs, filed the bill (HB 1007) last week. The plate would feature a shield displaying the rebel battle flag symbol surrounded by several flags from the Civil War era. He says it would give motorists a way to show pride in their heritage.

Brown says his bill has nothing to do with race. He pointed out that he filed another bill that would rename part of a highway in Walton County after black civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

I wonder which highway?

 

[elgordoboy]

I understand that some will always view the flag as symbols of hate, slavery, etc. So if I do choose to put the symbol on my car what does it make people think about me? "Oh hey there goes a redneck?" or "there goes a pro-slavery lover?" or "There goes a Southerner?" I guess it is all on how the viewer perceives it.
I guess this ole gal's has just been in the South her whole life and like it or not, I love that flag. I dont want slavery to come back, I dont have a gun rack in the car I drive and I love people from "up North". ;-)
I dont think I come off to people as an ignorant inbred hick. I guess I am just passionate about this subject - imagine if we all were passionate about the same thing - this board would be soooooooo boring...

Makes me think "Wow there goes a true daughter of the Confederacy..uh oh I am out of 'chaw, I hope I can catch up with her at the next light. Hold up there baby!"

Either you are for the rights of others to say things, no matter how offensive, or you are against it. It would depend on what they said if they came out against this. I would hope that they would support the first amendment, but I imagine they will try to show how being against it somehow makes them more enlightened.

As someone stated in a previous post there are all sorts of inflammatory decals and front plates one can purchase and display to express themselves. There is no excuse for a state to pander, support, and sponsor such.

 

[InletBchDweller]

Makes me think "Wow there goes a true daughter of the Confederacy..uh oh I am out of 'chaw, I hope I can catch up with her at the next light. Hold up there baby!"

'chaw - as in Red Man??

 

[elgordoboy]

'chaw - as in Red Man??

As in Red Man

 

[Busta Hustle]

ever notice how many neighborhood names around here have the word "Plantation"?

 

[Teresa]

I love how so many people in this area have moved from other places in the south, bringing different backgrounds and experiences, mostly youngish and educated. it makes for a different kind of dynamic community and I've watched this unique population develop over the last dozen years. I don't think we've ever even had a serious "flag" discussion among friends here unless joking / and even if we see one we don't notice it because it just isn't an issue here (at last not in our friendship experiences) . It just doesn't come up. It is not in our current culture or in our minds or on our tongues. this thread has made me realize this. what if we lived in other places, such as allifunn's area in SC, where the rebel flag is waved by every other person just to piss you off? Maybe you would get used to it, or make the sign of the cross everytime you pass one, or some other symbolic gesture. but some of us are so fortunate to not have this issue in our community.

if vanity plates are made available, the most sold would certainly be in north florida. but something makes me think we wouldn't see many here. it is an unreal kind of place. not perfect. not real world. but uniquely southern in a very good way.

thank God for Sowal.

 

[scooterbug44]

if vanity plates are made available, the most sold would certainly be in north florida. but something makes me think we wouldn't see many here. it is an unreal kind of place. not perfect. not real world. but uniquely southern in a very good way.

I disagree - the only reason I know you can get a confederate flag plate for the car front is from seeing it in my rearview mirror on 98! :roll:

And my first thought when I saw it was NOT "how wonderful that they are celebrating their regional heritage," but "WTF is a confederate flag doing on a vw beetle?!?"

 

[Teresa]

I disagree - the only reason I know you can get a confederate flag plate for the car front is from seeing it in my rearview mirror on 98! :roll:

lots of bama and georgia folks visit here all the time! the only time we were inundated with "W" stickers in sowal was during spring breaks for certain states.

surely some folks will have flag accessories around here. but I know of almost no one personaly who would dream of it..

scooter - you should know what I'm talking about. we have a growing group of people in SoWal who have never even given the flag a second thought in their entire lives. at least, these are the people I know and have known for a very long time. and they aren't about to start now.