So I went to the Hanover County Tomato Festival (They are seriously prideful of tomatoes around here and that's good thing- the best you ever tasted for 99 cents a pound) which is right down the street. It's big-30,000 to 40,000 people every year. We just kinda walk through it and leave but its one of those events you have to go to when you live around here. Kids stuff mostly, and a lot of arts and crafts booth's.
There was this Confederate/Southern Heritage booth. It caught my attention for a bunch of reasons; they were giving out free Confederate flag stickers (which apparently no one turned down) and they had the most obnoxious bumper stickers. I'm not talking about "Heritage Not Hate" mantra but things like "The War of Northern Aggression: America's Holocaust". There were others too but I literally couldn't read anymore it was pissing me off. They even had some lily white cracker girl dressed up like Scarlett O'Hara.
Anyways, they were having a raffle to benefit Lee-Davis High School (!) and the prize was a shotgun. I went up and looked at the rifle-yup a Remington, manufactured right in the town next to where I grew up- Ilion NY. Now I hated Ilion growing up. Herkimer and Ilion were and still are bitter rivals. Today however, I took pride in them.
But as you may know they have a few different plants, including one in North Carolina. So I read the owner's manual (apparently they can be dangerous). This one was from Ilion. The guy asked me if Sean wanted some coins-I guess they were giving out Confederate coins to kids. I said no and asked him if he knew where the gun was made. He said no. I said "It's ironic-you're giving away a Yankee gun" To which Scarlett O'Hara yells back "Well the North has to do something right"
