Current Events > Confederate flag sales are BOOMING after Charlottesville

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/confederate-flag-sales-are-booming-after-charlottesville/

Controversy is good for sales at Alabama Flag & Banner.

The small shop, which may be the last U.S.-based maker of Confederate flags, said sales have surged in the weeks since the deadly rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Demand has risen even more "dramatically within in the last 24 hours," ever since an interview about the shop was published at AL.com and as Confederate monuments across the country come down or are under debate, said owner Belinda Kennedy. who opened her Huntsville, Alabama shop in 1985.

"`What's really pushing sales [now] is removal of the monuments," Kennedy told CBS MoneyWatch. "The general feeling I get from customers that call and email is that they are just pushing back at people who are trying to revise our history. I think as long as that's in the news" demand will continue.
Major U.S. flag makers stopped producing Confederate flags two years ago following a surge in orders after now-convicted shooter Dylann Roof went on a rampage at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

#Statuegate
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Rednecks gonna redneck
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DIdnt know flag stores took Ebt
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So... Dylan Roof shot up a bunch of black people in a church, and that inspired a bunch of people to buy confederate flags?
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Confederate flag sales always boom, though admittedly you are starting to see less and less in the south which is wonderful. When I was a kid it was fucking everywhere. Truck patches and flags and bumper stickers, t shirts, shorts, whatever.

It's a slow process and you still occasionally get a hairy fat guy riding around with eight of them hanging off the back of his vehicle and old mccain-palin stickers plastered everywhere, but it's something
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BootyGif posted...

Rednecks gonna redneck

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CableZL posted...

So... Dylan Roof shot up a bunch of black people in a church, and that inspired a bunch of people to buy confederate flags?

Muh history!
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This isn't really surprising.
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B-b-b-b-but the flag has nothing to do with racism!!
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I'm sure there are companies in China who also make these flags
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voldothegr8 posted...

"The general feeling I get from customers that call and email is that they are just pushing back at people who are trying to revise our history.

That's literally why these statues were built to begin with. They're not memorials to the fallen, they're specifically monuments to Confederate leaders portrayed in a heroic pose and with some bulls*** lines about northern aggression. They've always been part of a larger scale by Confederate descandents to rewrite history.
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BootyGif posted...

Rednecks gonna redneck

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BootyGif posted...

Rednecks gonna redneck

iosifsvoboda posted...

DIdnt know flag stores took Ebt

My thoughts exactly.
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anyone else remember when 9/11 happened and everyone went out and bought American flags and all the flag people were rushing to get more but by the time they got them no one cared about patriotism anymore?
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*Civil Rights Act passes*
South: "Hey let's construct a bunch of confederate monuments to put those damn people in their place!"

*Various states vote to remove confederate monuments*
South: "Hey let's buy up a bunch of confederate flags to put those damn people in their place!"
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I bet a bunch of those sales are going to idiot flag burners.
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That_Happened posted...

*Civil Rights Act passes*
South: "Hey let's construct a bunch of confederate monuments to put those damn people in their place!"

*Various states vote to remove confederate monuments*
South: "Hey let's buy up a bunch of confederate flags to put those damn people in their place!"

*Gay marriage is made legal*
South: "Hey let's fuck our sisters to put those damn people in their place!"
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iosifsvoboda posted...

DIdnt know flag stores took Ebt

Pretty much all the cville nazis we're middle class
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