Faun
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The nation also accepted the outright bigotry and racism of Archie Bunker in his role on a TV show. That doesn't mean bigotry or racism was, or is, tolerated by the folks who were entertained by it while watching All in the Family.What you stated was that 90% of the south did not have slaves.
Must I continue to spoon feed you facts that you choose to ignore?I said mostWhat you stated was that 90% of the south did not have slaves.
Must I continue to spoon feed you facts that you choose to ignore?"America as a whole"?
Hardly. I've been to the majority of the states in this country, have quite a few active and retired educators in my family from states all over America, and heard many different views on it....very few of which view it as a "long standing, harmless symbol of regional pride", as you call it.
Outside of the south, and among a minuscule fringe of states rights sympathizers, it does not get much positive recognition.
At all.
But, I'm all for letting it fly, as a teachable example to future generations of what it's history stands for.
The photo below was taken within the "5 generation," period of "regional pride" that you reference, and I remember seeing some scenes like this, up close and personal when with my parents at civil rights marches in the south during the 1960's.
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The Dukes of Hazzard represented the flag, as demonstrated with my pic of the Gen Lee, and it's owners and their very attractive cousin,
as a harmless symbol of regional pride, celebrated by sympathetic and attractive main characters, and the nation as a whole accepted that without any shock or surprise.
Indeed, that show became a NATIONAL hit, loved as good, harmless, fluff entertainment by fans all over this nation.
One buffoonish TV program does not negate what far many more viewed as a different type of "symbol".
The easy acceptance of the tv show, by the nation as a whole and the way it portrayed the symbol, shows that the vast majority of America, viewed it as a harmless symbol of regional pride.
THat is my point. Would you like to address it now, or pretend to not understand it some more?
I addressed it already. Several times. "The Dukes of Hazzard" was nothing more than a cartoonish, buffoonish television show that portrayed some backwoods hicks who couldn't get out of their own way, as being harmless.
On the national and worldwide stage, that same flag represents much more than some innocuous symbol of "regional pride".
As I said before, fly it proudly.
Its history needs to be common knowledge.....and to most it is.
The easy acceptance by the nation wide viewing audience of the heroes' use of the symbols, proves that on the national stage, that the flag was accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride.
That is the point. The reaction of the nation wide viewing audience. Which utterly refutes your claim.
You keep pretending to not get that.
That is the history of this.