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Article: Rebels on the Hudson.(Hudson, New York; Confederate battle flag on car bumper prompts reflection)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 29, 2007
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I WAS pumping gas when in behind me pulled a pickup. Big, high built, lots of chrome. Volunteer fireman's plate on the front bumper. As I went into the PX to pay, I got a look at the back bumper: various stickerage, including a Confederate battle flag.
Now the pickup wasn't passing through, because it had New York plates, and the sticker wasn't a pure fluke, because I've seen other battle flags in the area. If this were the Old South, or a border state, or even the border of a border state, like my wife's hometown, Cincinnati (which has a big Kentucky diaspora), then the battle flag would be one thing: a regional connection, perhaps familial. It could be a ...