{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Man, people talk about the oddness of rural white northerners adopting Confederate iconography, but until four years ago I don't...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/159989084638/", "html": "Man, people talk about the oddness of rural white northerners adopting Confederate iconography, but until four years ago I don&rsquo;t remember seeing even dyed-in-the-wool old stock northerners pulling the bloody shirtiness that social media Yankees do these days, it&rsquo;s weird.\n<p>\n&lsquo;course I&rsquo;m mostly remembering the '90s, where moral statesmanship was taking lessons from Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Ireland, idea being that relitigating centuries-old wars, running down the flags, honored ancestors, and national identity of one section of the citizenry was Actually Bad. </p>"}