Hanging a flag outside your home is a statement — and your neighbors might just respond with their own
Kim Dacka tends to learn about current events even when she doesn’t watch the news. As the general manager of Flags USA, she’ll see a bump in sales for a particular flag and know that something is afoot.
And then, there are the people who call Dacka to see if they can sicc law enforcement on people over their flag displays. “I cannot even tell you how many calls I get, you know, ‘Can a ticket be written?’ ‘Can this person be arrested?’” over, say, flying a flag above the American flag on a pole or having a particularly tattered banner, says Dacka.
Bailey Sanz, of Chicago, started collecting flags and signs when she and her husband bought their home. Suddenly, they had a place to display them. She wasn’t looking to be inflammatory, but she thought flags with messages like “Vote,” “End Gun Violence” and “Climate Change is Real” wouldn’t be too controversial.“It’s a little bit self-expression. It’s a little bit protest. And then it’s a little bit, you know, just household decoration,” says Sanz.
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