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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 03:35 PM Oct 2017

A nice day at the NC State fair with my wife..except -surrounded by many wearing confederacy support

heritage stickers, lock her up stickers, trump stickers, GOP stickers.

In the building that hosts the groups related to politics, one lonely booth for the NC Democrats, and at least three NC GOP areas - the odious confederacy booth, the equally odious trump booth with the "lock her up" stickers, and the mild-by-comparison with those 2 representing the NC GOP.

Losers, sore losers, ignorance, stupidity - as abundant at the fair as the unhealthy foods like the deep friend everything and the bacon cheeseburgers on sugar dripping donuts as buns.

I suspect this will be our last visit for a long time.

Yuck!

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A nice day at the NC State fair with my wife..except -surrounded by many wearing confederacy support (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 OP
Double YUCK!! BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #1
I hope you popped by the NC Democrats booth gratuitous Oct 2017 #2
Yes and yes...and proudly wore our NC Dem stickers! NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #5
I'm so sorry........ CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2017 #3
What part of it was nice? B2G Oct 2017 #4
Weather, spending a day with my wife, the 3 miles of NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #6
Gorgeous weather for sure! nt B2G Oct 2017 #7
I'm sorry your outing was marred by so many people proud of their bigotry and racism. mnhtnbb Oct 2017 #8
That is good that he is rattling those people a bit. I want one. Alice11111 Oct 2017 #10
OMG! I had no idea it was so blatent. Is it the Post Charletsville Alice11111 Oct 2017 #9
Let them all know they are disrespecting the flag of the United States of America. TeamPooka Oct 2017 #11
Yeah, big yuck! and sad too. mountain grammy Oct 2017 #12
I haven't been to the NC State Fair in over 20 years bathroommonkey76 Oct 2017 #13
Decades ago, I worked in that DNC booth. sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #14
State Fair fanbases are a lot like Nascars. Old , white and bigoted. octoberlib Oct 2017 #15
I'm from red Ohio and I know exactly how you feel. blueinredohio Oct 2017 #16

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
1. Double YUCK!!
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 03:39 PM
Oct 2017

I would've made a U-turn at the first hat, bumper stinker, etc. I have zero tolerance these days.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. I hope you popped by the NC Democrats booth
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 03:42 PM
Oct 2017

It really does mean a lot to the people staffing those booths to get a friendly comment or at least a wave and a smile. Drop a buck into the collection box while you're at it.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,611 posts)
3. I'm so sorry........
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 03:43 PM
Oct 2017

I know you went, hoping to have a lovely time, and instead, you are subjected to this crap.

How awful.

mnhtnbb

(31,384 posts)
8. I'm sorry your outing was marred by so many people proud of their bigotry and racism.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 03:53 PM
Oct 2017

My husband wore his Kaepernick 7 shirt here at the beach and only one person at the grocery store told him they liked his shirt. He got a lot
of funny looks from a lot more people.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
9. OMG! I had no idea it was so blatent. Is it the Post Charletsville
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 04:04 PM
Oct 2017

"Freedom," that Dotard has said said, very good people on both sides, that has stirred it up?

Germany made the Nazi flag illegal. The freedom of speech issue is outweighed by inotingpeople to riot.

I'm thinking of getting my own flad and flying it at half mast until Dotard & Pence are gone. That would be a good movement, but it would endanger our houses.

TeamPooka

(24,223 posts)
11. Let them all know they are disrespecting the flag of the United States of America.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 04:18 PM
Oct 2017

not that they care this week.
Until Fox News tells them they need to again

 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
13. I haven't been to the NC State Fair in over 20 years
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 04:30 PM
Oct 2017

Reading your description doesn't make me want to jump in my car to see rural NC'ians walking around with funnel cake confectionery sugar clinging to their faces. Think I'll save my money for a concert in December.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
16. I'm from red Ohio and I know exactly how you feel.
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 06:55 PM
Oct 2017

Since Trump got put in office I don't go out much here either.

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