Quote: Tim Walker @ March 25 2010, 12:35 AM GMTIn the US you are fortunate to have a pretty much undisputed unifying flag. (Though, I presume some still prefer to fly the Confederate?)
Every 4th or 5th house in the States flies a flag. Here in Texas you're almost as likely to see Texas' state flag - it's a very powerful symbol of Texan pride. The entrance to my neighborhood has huge U.S. and Texas flags - they're about 50 feet long. One morning someone discovered that they'd been stolen and one of the residents bought replacements (very expensive) with his own money and had them flying again by afternoon.
The Confederate flag is still flown by some in the south, but mainly on hats and stickers on their cars. It's not typically a race thing, it's more of a "we're proud to live in the south and we'll wave it even more if northerners give us grief about it" thing. Racism will never die, but my cousin married a black guy in the Alabama city which is home to the headquarters of the KKK and said she seldom gets a second glance from local residents.
