There’s no escaping the fact that Virginia is
still a Confederate state, only dragged kicking and screeching a rebel yell
into the 20th Century. (I’m not actually convinced they’ve made it
to the 21st.) Them good ol’ boys are still pissed off that you can’t
smoke everywhere including hospitals and grocery stores, because tabacky.
I mean, yes, it’s the Mother of Presidents, but
seven out of the eight born here were slaveholders, and my money’s on Woodrow
Wilson being one, too, in his heart of hearts. So there’s a distinctly dark
underbelly to the genteel veneer of culture and refinement.
There are plenty of visual manifestations,
including the garrison-sized Confederate flag that waves over I-95 in Stafford
County. But one that gets up my nose is the proliferation of cod-patriot Tea
Party vanity license plates you see around here—even in Northern Virginia,
which Tea Baggers refer to as Southern Maryland. (They still resent the fact
that two of the richest counties in the country, Fairfax and Loudoun,
consistently vote Democratic, and that with the educated tech-based population
expanding south and west, we’re going to eventually turn the whole commonwealth
as blue as a summer sky.)
So, in a recent Twitter thread, I really got a
charge out of some of the memes that threw shade all over these yahoos. Viz:
God bless America.
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