It was just a matter of time…

Dukes of Hazzard Pulled From TV Land Schedule Amid Confederate Flag Controversy

For those who know nothing about the Dukes of Hazzard, it was a comedic/action TV show that aired from 1979 to 1985 and which had the main characters drive around in the car presented below, complete with this gaudy orange paint job:

Your eyes do not deceive you.  What you see on the car’s roof is indeed the Confederate Flag.  Every single episode of the show’s run featured this vehicle and its colorful paint job and, yes, Confederate Flag.  The car itself, by the way, was called the “General Lee”.

I was a big fan of the show for perhaps a season or so waaaaay back when it originally aired and before the formulaic plots bored me away (this all occurred well before the original “Duke” boys were replaced by other actors, a move which likely hastened the show’s eventual cancellation).

At that time I knew very little about U.S. Civil War and, more importantly, post-Civil War History, having lived in South America for several years.  Believe it or not, the schools there didn’t care all that much about the U.S. Civil War, preferring for some mysterious reason to spend more time teaching their own history.