Bizarre Sight of the Day

[forsyth]

Since I've moved to the South, there's occasional guys selling confederate battle flags out of RVs by the side of the road. Georgia only took the Confederate Battle Flag off their state flag a few years ago, after all.

The other week, I noticed one of them had a bunch of Confederate flags, and a flag of the Obama HOPE image. Which made me laugh, since I doubt there's much overlap between the audience for Confederate flags and Obama voters. Maybe they're trying to get into a wider audience. They do have the Confederate flag/pot leaf flags, after all.

Then yesterday, I saw one that took it a step farther. A flag, first half Obama, second half Confederate flag. I almost went back and bought one, just for the sheer bizarreness of it. But I didn't, 'cause I'm broke. I'm trying to figure out the audience for that, besides post-post-post-post ironic hipsters.

Comments

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

Hey, you moved down South? Where at, if I may ask?

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Down near Savannah. Georgia Tech has a campus here, and Jen's folks live nearby.

Technically, y'know, Virginia was the capital of the South, though.

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

I live in South Carolina. In the upstate, not too far from Atlanta really. We should try to meet up sometime. thdrgngrl is in the area too, as is ryanohki, although the bear lives in the lower part of SC.

Virginia may have been the capitol, but folks down here regard South Carolina as the heart of the south. Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee...that's all considered to be Deep South, and the cultures there are pretty similar. Also, that Obama'federate flag sounds like a hoot. Non sequiter defined. If I where you, I'd go back and get it; it's part of the novelty of living in the south.

[strickland.livejournal.com]

I'm in Atlanta myself...

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot about Drew.

Sorry dude. Knew there was someone I was leaving out. :/