[Vision2020] North Idaho's image problem

[Carl Westberg]

Forgive my late foray into the Confederate flag-Chamber of Commerce flap, 
I've been on vacation.  A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in the 
Asheville area of North Carolina.  At a museum in a little town called 
Brevard, I told the curator I was from north Idaho.  I was immediately 
assailed with questions about white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and 
neo-Confederates.  I did my part as an ambassador of our beautiful neck of 
the woods, and assured him that it was an assemblage of a handful of idiots 
who in no way represented the majority of Idaho residents.  Given the 
waning, but still active perception of this area as a haven for the Richard 
Butlers of the world, I can only say as a Moscow resident that a Chamber of 
Commerce presentation featuring the image of the Confederate flag is 
impolitic at best.  I'm feeling cranky, anyway.  I discovered over the 
weekend that at least three members of my extended clan are.....Republicans. 
  I've been assured by my support group that Republicans happen in the best 
of families.                                                                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                          Carl Westberg Jr.

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