To be a teensy bit clearer, this took more than 25 years of living in Texas. It concerns me because I feel like it supports my suspicion that our recent public debate on the subject has fallen into deeply-worn regional-distrust and urban-vs-rural rhetoric that has the effect of putting previously uninterested people into defensive posture. I don't think this was somebody who had that flag on it truck six months ago, and that should be worrisome.

The only other instance I recall of anybody actually owning one of those flags was some kid in the same dorm as me in college, and there was very clearly a "just cause my parents work on a farm doesn't mean I'm an idiot" guardedness about most of what that guy did. You know, based solely on what I recall from those mandatory hall-wide meetings all those years ago, which are oh-so memorable.... #reliablenarrator