It helps if you understand that a huge portion of rural Pennsylvanians are overtly racist. It’s like they collectively decided the worst southern stereotypes were aspirational.
//edit: I was born in Pa and live there. I’m not just slagging off my fellow Pensyltuckians. I see more confederate flags on the trip to my parent’s house a third of the way across the state than I did on my roadtrip to Tennessee last year.
Flying a confederate flag in Pennsylvania is about the most ridiculous thing I can think of off-hand. In the south, they’re all about “it’s not about racism, it’s about heritage!” People flying it in the north are, like, “Nope, racism! I don’t have any heritage with this, except its heritage of racism!”
Very slightly more ridiculous, imo, are the people that fly it in West Virginia. Whenever they come up, I think, like, do y’all even know why your state even exists?
It helps if you understand that a huge portion of rural Pennsylvanians are overtly racist. It’s like they collectively decided the worst southern stereotypes were aspirational.
//edit: I was born in Pa and live there. I’m not just slagging off my fellow Pensyltuckians. I see more confederate flags on the trip to my parent’s house a third of the way across the state than I did on my roadtrip to Tennessee last year.
Flying a confederate flag in Pennsylvania is about the most ridiculous thing I can think of off-hand. In the south, they’re all about “it’s not about racism, it’s about heritage!” People flying it in the north are, like, “Nope, racism! I don’t have any heritage with this, except its heritage of racism!”
Very slightly more ridiculous, imo, are the people that fly it in West Virginia. Whenever they come up, I think, like, do y’all even know why your state even exists?