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Don't waist your time here. These are some extreme, far-left types here.

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The real Southern flag is a white one, as in surrender. The Civil War is over and you lost. Get over it.

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Also a Portlander here. I deliberately avoid the suburbs.

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Do bastardized hick-holler names like Rockafellow even exist in places without a long history of illiteracy and stupidity?

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Because there are more people in those cities. So, yeah. But you live in the shithole that will vote Trump, and not by accident.

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It's always amused me that the vast majority of Americans who proclaim their love of heritage through this flag don't it know was only flown during battle by the Army of Northern Virginia. While I'll grant you that it was a pretty important unit, the flag never represented the confederacy as a whole, it was merely used in battle by some of its forces. It's almost akin to waiving around one sports team's logo and insisting it represents the entire league. I'm pretty sure it's not standard curriculum, but in Canada I was taught that little tidbit in grade 5...how is it that so many Americans have never learned about the various confederate flags used in their own civil war, especially those in the South?

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When do they ban the prom? That's usually the next step because we don't want him dancing with (and sullying) our poor (pure) white girls.

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Jimmy Buffett mentions Livingston in his song "Livingston Saturday Night." He would not be happy.

Fifteen may get you twenty, that's all right

'Cause they'll be rockin' and a rollin'

On a Livingston Saturday night

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Oh I see. Can't possibly try to be objective, so instead, call the place a shithole because of the actions of a couple of ignorant assholes. I think they call that.... oh yeah, being prejudiced. But I thought all you SJWs were against prejudice?

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Those "couple of ignorant assholes" seem to form 60% of the electorate based on the way they vote. Only morons insist on objectivity in the face of overwhelming evidence.

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Can you show me the data that shows 60% of the population in Livingston is racist, or did you forget what the article is about already, moron. (You started with the name calling.)

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I live in the Couv **hangs head in shame**

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I was referring to your state, not your specific little burg. Maybe your particular 98% white little town is some mysterious enclave of diversity.

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And they snicker at dopes who can't grasp the waste/waist distinction.

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I'm just curious, how much student loan debt are you in?

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Military, douchebag

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