Hello, sorry if this is a strange place to leave this comment but there's no immediately obvious way of contacting you so I've just decided to leave it on the most recent post. I first stumbled across your site a couple years back. I'm a younger person (gen z) who was born and raised in a highly culturally Southern rural county, but I came from a family that never really used the symbol and generally seemed to err a bit away from it. I mostly did the same myself; I was always suspicious of the mainstream narrative around the Rebel flag but wasn't animated enough on the issue to vocally oppose it either. Deep down though I just felt that the narrative was wrong and truly not representative of how the flag is mostly used these days but I was also afraid of the wrath that using the symbol seems to so-often incur.
Once I got online more though I started desiring a symbol for my roots. You become a lot more aware of your cultural pecuilarities when you spend time around people from different places, lot of the time I'd join a voice call for example and get many comments about my accent. Always one to shy away from making a stir, I initially tried to compromise by using the Moultrie flag (a standard I am sure that you are familiar with as a South Carolinian) on my profiles and websites since it's a largely inoffensive symbol.
But eventually I came to the conclusion that it was pretty much just cope because nobody would look at that flag and immediately associate it with the South. There's only symbol people do that for, and it's the Rebel flag; baggage and all. Around this time I also came across your site, and particularly your "The Moral Struggle for the Dixie Cross" article provided me with an alternative perspective that differed from the usual mainstream media narrative, and also showed me how nuanced the issue was.
Nowadays I proudly display it in many places, and have embraced my cultural heritage to a great extent. Above all I just wanted you to know that I'm sure you've reached me and probably many others as well with your message! If you have an e-mail or any other method of contact I'd love to get in touch, since we seem to share some interests and similiarities in common outside of our support for Southern heritage (such as the love for anime and also the mutual support for autism acceptance) :)
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Hello, sorry if this is a strange place to leave this comment but there's no immediately obvious way of contacting you so I've just decided to leave it on the most recent post. I first stumbled across your site a couple years back. I'm a younger person (gen z) who was born and raised in a highly culturally Southern rural county, but I came from a family that never really used the symbol and generally seemed to err a bit away from it. I mostly did the same myself; I was always suspicious of the mainstream narrative around the Rebel flag but wasn't animated enough on the issue to vocally oppose it either. Deep down though I just felt that the narrative was wrong and truly not representative of how the flag is mostly used these days but I was also afraid of the wrath that using the symbol seems to so-often incur.
Once I got online more though I started desiring a symbol for my roots. You become a lot more aware of your cultural pecuilarities when you spend time around people from different places, lot of the time I'd join a voice call for example and get many comments about my accent. Always one to shy away from making a stir, I initially tried to compromise by using the Moultrie flag (a standard I am sure that you are familiar with as a South Carolinian) on my profiles and websites since it's a largely inoffensive symbol.
But eventually I came to the conclusion that it was pretty much just cope because nobody would look at that flag and immediately associate it with the South. There's only symbol people do that for, and it's the Rebel flag; baggage and all. Around this time I also came across your site, and particularly your "The Moral Struggle for the Dixie Cross" article provided me with an alternative perspective that differed from the usual mainstream media narrative, and also showed me how nuanced the issue was.
Nowadays I proudly display it in many places, and have embraced my cultural heritage to a great extent. Above all I just wanted you to know that I'm sure you've reached me and probably many others as well with your message! If you have an e-mail or any other method of contact I'd love to get in touch, since we seem to share some interests and similiarities in common outside of our support for Southern heritage (such as the love for anime and also the mutual support for autism acceptance) :)
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