Via Iowa Starting Line, we learn that Rep. Steve King, the Iowa congressman who was elevated into office on an English Only platform, who believes that Mexican immigrants are more likely to be melon-calved drug mules than school valedictorians, and who is now the prime driver of the Republican Party's entire Trumpesque anti-immigration platform, proudly displays a Confederate flag on his desk.
Yes, it appears King has a whole little collection of flags on the desk where he works on crafting the nation’s policy. It includes a United States of America flag, a State of Iowa one, the “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsen flag, a Papal State flag and the Confederate flag. That’s the one used by those folks who seceded from the country and is typically regarded as racist imagery, in case you had forgotten. Also, as an important point of clarification you may also need, the state of Iowa, where King is from, fought on the Union’s side.
It is uncanny how often you meet someone forever obsessed with all the theoretical dangers posed by non-white persons in our midst and it turns out, just coincidentally, that they happen to have strong feelings about the "heritage" of that particular flag. I can't imagine what the link might be.
Oh—just as an aside: Yes. Yes, in 2016, you might go meet your Republican congressman to talk about your important issue or local need and they'll be proudly displaying a Confederate flag in their office when they get there. In 2016. In the deep-south state of Iowa.