>Where you been? In my parents' neighborhood in suburban NJ, theirs is
>about the only house without flags. Many lawns are festooned with multiple
>flags even. Most apartment bldgs in nonpoor neighborhoods of Manhattan
>have flags displayed - a real shocker, in this hotbed of secular humanism.
I do not see that many flags in Baltimore. They are mostly on suburban cars in the form of stickers, and compete with the Ravens emblem.
In central PA, where my wife lives, there are more of them, many of them accompanied by the particularly obnoxious slogan "God Bless America" (it is the G.. word in conjunction with nationalism, not merely the flag that pisses me off), but then again only about half of the vehicles and houses display them.
Apparently, the bumper sticker mania, like long hair, finally trickled down and now is fashionable among rednecks and burb dwellers of redneck lineage. The more educated and liberal leaning folk tend to avoid them altogether.
wojtek