06-25-2015, 06:37 PM
(06-25-2015, 06:18 PM)Duchess Wrote:(06-25-2015, 06:16 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: I've always perceived it to represent more than "just some good ole' boys, never meaning no harm."
...yeah but something or someone gave you that idea. There is a reason you view it negatively.
Not sure.
My grandparents lived in the South until their deaths. My grandpa was from MN, and grandma was a true Debutante from Galveston, TX. I kid, she was from Glaveston but didn't come from any wealth.
She searched out a husband at the AA base in East Texas during WWII.
He worked for the FBI after the war, dragging her from city to city, settled in Minneapolis in the early 50's and then (to her liking), he moved the business to Biloxi, MS.
Hurrican Camille crushed them in 1969, but they rebuilt and lived a great life.
They'd travel every summer to Brainerd, MN and spend a couple of months at the family cabin.
Through it all she never lost her Southern charm or accent. She was very proper. Not at all like a hillbilly or Redneck, but she definitely thought one way about the 'coloreds.' They were not smart and they were definitely beneath us.
I'm not sure what my grandpa thought. He employed a lot of blacks. Anytime I was at the factory it sure seemed as though they loved him. And why not? He was giving them a job. No unions. You worked, you got paid.
My buddy Glenn, who's black and was born in rural Louisiana, says living in the North has been a completely different experience for him than living in the South.
Anyway, not sure about a specific thing that happened to make me identify the Stars & Bars with "wanting to go back to the days of slavery", but it's just how I see it.