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system1 · July 17, 2015, 2:34pm

Discussion for article #238524

mjv135 · July 17, 2015, 2:51pm

Good news. Wondering why though, Ohio was a Union state.

I find it a bit ironic, all these years later, that it’s the losing side that can’t stop reminiscing about the war.

meri · July 17, 2015, 2:52pm

The reason it matters in Ohio would be clear if you ever find yourself riding on the interstate through rural Ohio. They’re all over. At and least one barn whose entire side is a damned traitor flag.

nowarino · July 17, 2015, 2:55pm

If you are wondering how a state proud of its Underground Railroad past has so many treasonous flags:

nowarino · July 17, 2015, 2:57pm

Many southerners came for the jobs during and after the Great Depression.

artemisia · July 17, 2015, 3:03pm

Count down to white guys whining…

mjv135 · July 17, 2015, 3:03pm

Yes, I do live in Ohio … I do see them … was just thinking out loud there.

stlounick · July 17, 2015, 3:12pm

Thank you to all of the state fairs that are banning Confederate flag memorabilia.

ralph_vonholst · July 17, 2015, 3:12pm

Deep-fried candy bars and the Confederate Battle Flag? When I think about it for a moment, I can see the profound, ineluctable logic in that juxtaposition.

braxtonbraggart · July 17, 2015, 3:16pm

Amateurs. Down here we have deep-fried butter.

http://www.radialgroup.com/images/state_fair_1009_crop.jpg

theghostofeustacetilley · July 17, 2015, 3:21pm

Deep fried Oreos are pretty damn good.

steviedee111 · July 17, 2015, 4:01pm

The Indiana State Fair will pass out free Confederate flags at all entry gates. For $5.00 more you can get a miniature lynching tree or an Al Jolson photograph.

trippin · July 17, 2015, 4:07pm

I know about the blackface, but I think Jolson was a civil rights advocate in his day. I’ll have to look into it more. But yeah, bump for Talibandiana.

trippin · July 17, 2015, 4:09pm

And of course by virtue of that migration we have the evolution of the blues, from the country blues of the delta all the way to the electric city blues of Chicago.

foundryman · July 17, 2015, 4:15pm

Can’t help but wonder why a Union state like Ohio with thousands of graves of civil war heroes in every cemetery in every county, would have these items for sale in the first place…

thunderclapnewman · July 17, 2015, 4:16pm

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

It really is that simple.

jtgeomom · July 17, 2015, 4:17pm

I see the confederate flag over here in PA on pickup trucks and at county fairs too. I’m interested to see if the Butler Farm Show will be selling them. That area’s represented by Daryl Metcalfe, the state rep who either (I forget which) declared a recent year the Year of the Bible, or else wanted to make the Bible the state book. You see booths against abortion and for the creation museum at the farm show too.

foundryman · July 17, 2015, 4:17pm

So much for “heritage, history, culture and respect”…

azjude · July 17, 2015, 4:22pm

OHIO?!?!

Wasn’t that state part of the union?

What the hell? Why in the world would the Ohio state fair be selling the opposing and losing side’s hate crap?

steviedee111 · July 17, 2015, 4:22pm

Because it’s loaded with racist rednecks. Go to Idaho. People wallpaper their trailers with the damned Rebel flag. They weren’t even a state during the Civil War. Civil War battle lines and allegiances have little to do these days with a current person’s affinity for the good old days when you could string up a black person and get away with it. Remnants of Southern hate have migrated to all corners of the country.