Feeling Kinship With The South, Northerners Let Their Confederate Flags Fly
"They wanted their independence, they wanted a smaller government. I find that a lot in people, it's just that rebelliousness," Iowa resident Bruce Peterson said.
by Sarah McCammon
May 04, 2017
3 minutes
When 60-year-old Owen Golay talks about the two Confederate flags he flies in his front yard, he sounds like many Southern defenders of such symbols.
"It stands for heritage; it's a part of our history," Golay said.
But it's not really his history. Golay lives in rural Pleasantville, Iowa, about 40 miles from where he was born. He still carries a small Confederate flag that his father gave him as a child. But aside from some people
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