Nation's last Confederate flag manufacturer sees sales surge after Charlottesville

[TexasTowelie]

Rebel flag sales are up since Charlottesville. One north Alabama shop may be the only flag manufacturer in America meeting the increased demand.

Alabama Flag & Banner is located in a small strip near downtown Huntsville. Two years ago, the company began manufacturing the Confederate flag after retailers pulled it from their shelves in the wake of the mass shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. in which nine people were killed by a white supremacist who'd been photographed holding a Confederate flag.

The country's major flag manufacturers stopped producing rebel flags. Eventually, said longtime owner Belinda Kennedy, Alabama Flag & Banner became the go-to manufacturer for hundreds of retailers across the country looking to stock American-made Confederate flags. Online orders boomed, too.

Two weeks ago, after the deadly Charlottesville rally sparked a national debate about whether Confederate monuments should be removed from parks around the country, flag sales spiked again.

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[VOX]

1. Should be like the Nazi flag in Germany: outlawed.

I'm sure that a fear of eventual outlawing of the Confederate Battle Flag are fueling that sales surge, along with the expected jack-up of offended testosterone.

But hell yes, outlaw that traitorous rag! It was always a stain, but it really became a genuine obscenity when it saw daylight again in the 1950s-60s, during the civil-rights struggle, when there was NO doubt about the intent.

No one's even mentioned the Civil War horrors committed at the notorious Andersonville prisoner of war camp. Yes, many rebs were mistreated and died in Union POW camps, but Andersonville was in a "class" by itself.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Well said!

[RobinA]

5. A Flag

is clearly speech. Are you repealing the 1st Amendment?

[Skittles]

3. just like gun humping behavior

fuck them

[Squinch]

6. I was just going to say the same. They all have a hoarding problem.

[MichMan]

4. How much jail time should violators receive?

Any other flags that should also be outlawed as well ?

The US also fought wars against England, Italy, and Japan. Should those flags also be banned?