>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > Doug Henwood wrote:
> > >
> > > Chuck Munson wrote:
> > >
> > > >This is complete bullshit! This is what people
> > want to say to pollsters,
> > > >but it doesn't reflect reality. I've been
> > observing these behaviors since
> > > >9-11 and I would argue that a minority of people
> > fly the flag from their
> > > >car or from their home.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > [. . .]Is there a nodal point,
> > where if so many
> > homes on a block produce flags, there's a rush from
> > the others? I
> > haven't seen a single block with all flags, and
> > there are only a few
> > large ones.
>
> It's refreshing to have just moved to a heavily Puerto
> Rican strip of Humboldt Park in Chicago. Maybe it's
> the two monumental and steely-looking Puerto Rican
> flags bracing Division St. a few blocks on either side
> of us. If there's a rush from others here, it's for a
> few more PR flags. I haven't noticed the Stars 'n'
> Stripes alongside the PR banner regularly seen being
> driven around the neighborhood. But then this is not
> a nonpoor neighboorhood.
>
> Alec
>
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