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Originally Posted by the urban politician
What's with that torn up rebel flag?
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Bump, I was searching for downstate Illinois threads and found this. I lived in Decatur for a good part of my childhood years, my dad worked for Caterpillar and had a job transfer there and thus my immediate family were Chicagoans in exile from 1986-2004, well actually me only until 1999 when I started college but I can comment. When I lived there in the 1990's I don't remember seeing confederate flags, I have heard some rumors that the place has become more right wing since the time I lived there. Then again my family didn't socialize with the local rednecks much, we mostly interacted with the Catholic population via our local parish and that bunch was quite moderate and it was a union town at least in the 1990's. We also spent so much time traveling to and from Chicago including me spending half the summer with relatives in the city that I might have been pretty sheltered from whatever extremism might have existed there.
That being said seeing that kind of stuff disgusts me. I mean for fucks sake Illinois is the Land of Lincoln and Decatur even tries to play up it's ties to Abraham Lincoln. So it is kind of strange to have ties to the ultimate unionist and yet have a confederate flag at the same time. I am perfectly fine with normal people who live downstate, fond memories with some of them, but the wannabe confederate rednecks, fuck them, I hope they all leave Illinois and self deport themselves to the redneck hell hole of their choosing.
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