Seems Louisiana wingnuts are now burning American flags ...

[struggle4progress]

This from Lafayette LA's Daily Advertiser:

Reward offered, stolen U.S. flag
Amanda McElfresh • [e-mail] • November 1, 2008

The only American flag that survived a Tuesday night fire outside attorney William Goode's Johnston Street office was stolen Thursday night.

Goode said he had erected the display, consisting of a Barack Obama campaign sign and five American flags, near his office about three weeks ago. Sometime Tuesday night, someone set fire to the Obama sign. The blaze also destroyed or damaged four of the flags on the display.

Goode said he left his office around 5:30 p.m. Thursday and found the last remaining flag missing when he returned to work around 7 a.m. Friday.

"I had attached them so they could not be taken or blown down," Goode said. "Someone went through a lot of effort to do this" ...

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/NEWS01/811010317/1002

Patriotism, Republican style ...

[izzie]

1. Gop? Gee they love flags.

They usually think they are more important that people. Flags and Corp. have always been big with the GOP. Sounds like us when we were in high school stealing the pumpkins.

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Why is Loiusiana so racist? And have Dems abandoned the black minority there?

Just look at the lack of campaigning there (compare to North Dakota).

Dem strategists and policymakers have explicitly said "now that the state has fewer black people, it's more difficult to win" as if (a) that is their primary concern and (b) they are comfortable with it staying that way. The Louisiana State Democratic Party (see: Gretna, Metairie, St. Bernard) is a racist institution that would rather lose elections than appeal to black voters to win. They want to reposition themselves as the party of the white suburbanites and Cajuns who sent sherriffs to shoot at people trying to leave New Orleans on foot. They have no shame for what happened in Katrina. Even today, New Orleanians will proudly cite how you can get arrested for walking around without ID as proof that they are tough on the "remaining criminals" in the working class areas they want to tear down.

[Selatius]

3. There are parts of the country that haven't really been too touched by civil rights reforms.

I know it. It's a problem in certain parts of Mississippi where I live. With the annihilation of many working poor neighborhoods, land has opened up for real estate developers. In the Biloxi-Gulfport corridor here in Mississippi, there are ton of brand new high rise condos that are popping up, since Katrina pretty much swept the land clean.