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> "Your flag"...so, the flag you believe in only represents 13 states, does that mean you don't consider yourself an American?[/bq]

 
You hit the nail on the head. A while back I came to the conclusion that many American citizens are, in a real sense, un-American. That is, they oppose the Enlightenment ideals enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the Constitution and its Amendments, and they consider New Yorkers et al. as foreign as Australians. That's why they fly a fundamentally anti-American flag.


 
Of course, if we let them walk away we'd see this same tribalism play out at smaller scales:


 
* "Them dad-gurn Richmond liberals can't tell me what to do!"
 
* "Them dad-gurn Columbia liberals can't tell me what to do!"
 
* "Them dad-gurn city council liberals can't tell me what to do!"
 
* "AM I BEING DETAINED?"

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"Your flag"...so, the flag you believe in only represents 13 states, does that mean you don't consider yourself an American?[/bq]
You hit the nail on the head. A while back I came to the conclusion that many American citizens are, in a real sense, un-American. That is, they oppose the Enlightenment ideals enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the Constitution and its Amendments, and they consider New Yorkers et al. as foreign as Australians. That's why they fly a fundamentally anti-American flag.

Of course, if we let them walk away we'd see this same tribalism play out at smaller scales:

* "Them dad-gurn Richmond liberals can't tell me what to do!"
* "Them dad-gurn Columbia liberals can't tell me what to do!"
* "Them dad-gurn city council liberals can't tell me what to do!"
* "AM I BEING DETAINED?"