Especially in those military unis. Of course, I would expect a man who displays the Stars and Bars and a noose in his office would be virtually orgasmic over donning the uniform of a Confederate general, accompanied by his son Forrest.
Also, I find it curious that Allen claims his mother is Tunisian, when by accounts his mother was French. Now I know that Tunisia used to be a protectorate of France (until '55 or '56, I believe) so it's quite possible his mother was a Tunisian-born Frenchwoman. Why is he so careful now to deny his blatant racism on the grounds that his mother is Tunisian? What are you implying, Mr. Allen?
Here's some juicy stuff:
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/2006_04.html(excerpt)
Whuppin' his siblings might have been a natural prelude to Confederate sympathies and noose-collecting if Allen had grown up in, say, a shack in Alabama. But what is most puzzling about Allen's interest in the old Confederacy is that he didn't grow up in the South. Like a military brat, Allen hopscotched around the country on a route set by his father's coaching career. The son was born in Whittier, California, in 1952 (Whittier College Poets), moved to the suburbs of Chicago for eight years (the Bears), and arrived in Southern California as a teenager (the Rams). In Palos Verdes, an exclusive cliffside community, he lived in a palatial home with sweeping views of downtown Los Angeles and the Santa Monica basin. It had handmade Italian tiles and staircases that his eccentric mother, Etty, designed to match those in the Louvre. "It looks like a French château," says Linda Hurt Germany, a high school classmate.
Even the elder George Allen wasn't Southern--he grew up in the Midwest--but the oddest part of the myth of George Allen's Dixie rusticity is his mother. Rather than a Southern belle, Etty was, in fact, French, and, as such, she was a deliciously indiscreet cultural libertine. She would do housework in her bra and panties. She wore muumuus and wraparound sunglasses and once won a belly button contest. According to Jennifer, "Mom prided herself for being un-American. ... She was ashamed that she had given up her French citizenship to become a citizen of a country she deemed infantile." When her husband later moved the family to Virginia, Etty despised living in the state. She was also anti-Washington before her son ever was, albeit in a slightly more continental fashion.... Also turns out that the fact his mother was a French national might account for the "macaca" slur:
http://thetalkingmoose.livejournal.com/As John over at AMERICAblog points out:
<"Macaca" is> a French slur, derived from the word macaque, as in monkey, used against the dark-skinned people of North Africa. And guess what? George Allen's mother was a French national (one presumes she was not a black woman) who lived in North Africa before coming to the US (she was in the US at least by the late 50s). And judging by the rather terrible French relations with North Africa during the era, it's likely that a white French woman living in the area might know a few nasty words for dark people, and use them around her children. Additional links:
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/05/george_allens_h.html (A really good one.)
http://www.wheresgeorgeallen.com/2006_04_01_archive.html