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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 3:32:55 AM
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https://www.roanoke.com/news/local/lexington-area-tourism-group-beefs-up-marketing-in-wake-of/article_2c14f4e7-c169-501c-83c7-8798a867588a.html

Sanders tweeted the day after the incident that she had been asked to leave because she works for President Donald Trump. Soon after, Lexington was flooded with protesters who stood outside the restaurant, chanted and held signs. Others posted both positive and negative reviews of the restaurant online.

All three localities met and decided to pull together emergency funds to increase digital marketing and spread positive messages of the area, especially Lexington, which brings in the largest number of tourists.

Rockbridge Regional Tourism agreed to spend an additional $5,000 per month from the offices emergency fund from July through September.

The tourism office receives 0.8 percent of the lodging and meals tax collected from each locality. About 20 percent of its annual budget, which is around $800,000, is put into a reserve for emergencies.

Typically the money is saved. But each locality agreed the region was in desperate need of positive coverage after The Red Hen incident.

Director of Marketing Patty Williams said the area is still feeling effects from the controversy the tourism office received a letter Thursday from a family in Georgia who said they would never come back to the area because of what happened. And during the immediate aftermath of the incident, the tourism office received thousands of phone calls and emails.

For a town our size, it was a significant impact, Williams said.


Get woke, go broke. Sucks that one woke restaurant had to make everyone around them suffer too.
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Irony
09/04/18 3:34:17 AM
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Sucks how much Trump has ruined this country
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MakoReizei
09/04/18 3:35:27 AM
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what was the point of kicking her out anyway. other than to virtue signal?
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Zikten
09/04/18 3:35:58 AM
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Lol

Kinda funny. I mean I guess I feel bad for anyone in the town that was against what happened but yea....

That was rude as hell what the restaurant did. Sarah just does a job and talks to the press. She doesn't fucking have anything to do with decisions on how to run the country. She doesn't do anything. She's basically just a reporter of sorts.
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Le__seul_dieu__
09/04/18 3:36:25 AM
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MakoReizei posted...
what was the point of kicking her out anyway. other than to virtue signal?

free publicity
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 3:40:21 AM
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Irony posted...
Sucks how much Trump has ruined this country

4cFAmFL
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Irony
09/04/18 3:42:14 AM
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Oh TC is the but Hillary crowd
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 3:42:38 AM
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Irony posted...
Oh TC is the but Hillary crowd

Woosh.
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Irony
09/04/18 3:43:13 AM
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Woosh also
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Vyrulisse
09/04/18 3:43:27 AM
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The sword of protest slashes both ways.

Fair, Next I suppose
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TommyG663513
09/04/18 3:45:55 AM
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Zikten posted...
Lol

Kinda funny. I mean I guess I feel bad for anyone in the town that was against what happened but yea....

That was rude as hell what the restaurant did. Sarah just does a job and talks to the press. She doesn't fucking have anything to do with decisions on how to run the country. She doesn't do anything. She's basically just a reporter of sorts.


I mean, I disagree with kicking her out, but Sanders is far from just being a reporter. She is very much lying the American public. She is complicit in an awful lot of what he does by trying to spin it and be his mouthpiece. There is no doubt that she is a despicable person and does what she can to cover for this horrible administration.

I just think kicking her out was ultimately a pointless action. Should just try to be somewhat kind and welcoming despite dealing with some rather awful individuals.

Sanders was trash to tweet about this along with all of the other Trump adjacent deplorables like her father and also Trump himself. She could have just accepted that with some class and dignity, but she knew she could use this to distract from this terrible administration for a couple days. This doesn't forgive the Trump supporting sheep who decided to use this as an opportunity to harass a store.
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 3:47:51 AM
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TommyG663513 posted...
Sanders was trash to tweet about this

Why
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kingdrake2
09/04/18 3:49:34 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
TommyG663513 posted...
Sanders was trash to tweet about this

Why


sanders had no right in doing that. fucking bitch.

i have much worse words to say about her but i don't want to get modded.
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Zikten
09/04/18 3:50:39 AM
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Why does she have no right to talk about something that happened to her? Even if you think she deserved to be kicked out she can talk about it as much as she wants. I have no idea what your thought process is
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 3:51:36 AM
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kingdrake2 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
TommyG663513 posted...
Sanders was trash to tweet about this

Why


sanders had no right in doing that. fucking bitch.

Actually she does.
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KamenRiderBlade
09/04/18 3:52:18 AM
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kingdrake2 posted...
sanders had no right in doing that. fucking bitch.
Because you don't like her, or her political allegiance, she can't be allowed freedom of speech.

Is that basically it?
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pegusus123456
09/04/18 3:53:17 AM
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I mean, fuck Sanders and Trump, but it's hard to argue that she shouldn't be tweeting about being kicked out of a restaurant.
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JE19426
09/04/18 3:56:40 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
Sucks that one woke restaurant had to make everyone around them suffer too.


Nah, it was the Trump supports who caused the other people to suffer.
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Vyrulisse
09/04/18 3:59:40 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
Sucks that one woke restaurant had to make everyone around them suffer too.


Nah, it was the Trump supports who caused the other people to suffer.

Remember that if/when you support another Liberal-leaning Protest.
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KamenRiderBlade
09/04/18 4:00:02 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
Sucks that one woke restaurant had to make everyone around them suffer too.


Nah, it was the Trump supports who caused the other people to suffer.
And there would be no Trump Supporters affecting that town if one person didn't let politics mix with business.

Because they decided to inject their politics into business, everybody around them will suffer.

If they just decided to "DO THEIR FUCKING jobs" and don't let politics get in the way, the town wouldn't suffer.
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KamenRiderBlade
09/04/18 4:01:25 AM
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Spooking posted...
Le__seul_dieu__ posted...
MakoReizei posted...
what was the point of kicking her out anyway. other than to virtue signal?

free publicity

Publicity that backfired. lol
Publicity is a double edged sword.

Yeah, you might make one side happy, but the other side will literally rail on you.

Are you ready for the consequences of that?
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TommyG663513
09/04/18 4:04:11 AM
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Zikten posted...
Why does she have no right to talk about something that happened to her? Even if you think she deserved to be kicked out she can talk about it as much as she wants. I have no idea what your thought process is


Do you think Sanders is absolutely stupid and has no idea how this could be used to rile up the Trump base and distract from the many scandals she has to try to spin?
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 4:08:08 AM
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TommyG663513 posted...
Zikten posted...
Why does she have no right to talk about something that happened to her? Even if you think she deserved to be kicked out she can talk about it as much as she wants. I have no idea what your thought process is


Do you think Sanders is absolutely stupid and has no idea how this could be used to rile up the Trump base and distract from the many scandals she has to try to spin?

If the truth makes you look so bad that an entire town suffers because of you, the fault isn't with the person that told the truth about you.
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JE19426
09/04/18 4:11:23 AM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Remember that if/when you support another Liberal-leaning Protest.


Ok? I'm not seeing your point.
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TommyG663513
09/04/18 4:12:05 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
TommyG663513 posted...
Zikten posted...
Why does she have no right to talk about something that happened to her? Even if you think she deserved to be kicked out she can talk about it as much as she wants. I have no idea what your thought process is


Do you think Sanders is absolutely stupid and has no idea how this could be used to rile up the Trump base and distract from the many scandals she has to try to spin?

You haven't explained yet why she's a bad person for saying what factually happened to her at the restaurant.


Nice Sanders level deflection... you have clearly failed to understand my question and how it highlights Sanders intentions through her actions and the result. I don't think Sanders was unaware as to how this could all play out.
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Zikten
09/04/18 4:12:16 AM
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I don't really care what her motives are in the tweets. She has the right to make them. She got banned from a restaurant. She is allowed to talk about it.
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 4:12:43 AM
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TommyG663513 posted...
Nice Sanders level deflection... you have clearly failed to understand my question and how it highlights Sanders intentions through her actions and the result. I don't think Sanders was unaware as to how this could all play out.

Sephiroth1288 posted...
If the truth makes you look so bad that an entire town suffers because of you, the fault isn't with the person that told the truth about you.

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JE19426
09/04/18 4:13:20 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
If the truth makes you look so bad that an entire town suffers because of you, the fault isn't with the person that told the truth about you.


Yes, the fault is with the people who decides to punish a whole town, instead of the person/people that offended them.
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KamenRiderBlade
09/04/18 4:13:23 AM
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TommyG663513 posted...
I don't think Sanders was unaware as to how this could all play out.
I think Sanders just wanted to eat dinner.

That's it.
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snowman9267
09/04/18 4:14:45 AM
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Sanders is a slimeball asshat, hopefully they threw her out face first.
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 4:15:28 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
If the truth makes you look so bad that an entire town suffers because of you, the fault isn't with the person that told the truth about you.


Yes, the fault is with the people who decides to punish a whole town, instead of the person/people that offended them.

No one "decided" to punish the whole town. The restaurant just left such caused so much bad publicity that people just shied away from the county altogether.
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 4:15:46 AM
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snowman9267 posted...
Sanders is a slimeball asshat, hopefully they threw her out face first.

Seek help.
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JE19426
09/04/18 4:18:51 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
No one "decided" to punish the whole town. The restaurant just left such caused so much bad publicity that people just shied away from the county altogether.


Nah, that was the Trump supporters who protested the place. Did you actually read the article you linked to and quoted?
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bevan306
09/04/18 4:18:59 AM
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isn't getting a visit from that ghastly woman punishment enough
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OpenlyGator
09/04/18 4:21:04 AM
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TommyG663513 posted...
I just think kicking her out was ultimately a pointless action. Should just try to be somewhat kind and welcoming despite dealing with some rather awful individuals.

Sanders was trash to tweet about this along with all of the other Trump adjacent deplorables like her father and also Trump himself. She could have just accepted that with some class and dignity, but she knew she could use this to distract from this terrible administration for a couple days. This doesn't forgive the Trump supporting sheep who decided to use this as an opportunity to harass a store.

And who foolishly handed them that opportunity....?
The uppity restaurant owner is who really started the fire that's burning their neighbors. Not Sanders.

I mean you can say Sanders is an evil monster all day and you might even be correct about it, but the one who poked her with a stick was the reckless restaurant owner. Sanders probably would have left that town without mentioning anything about it at all. But thanks to the restaurant owner's "ironic intolerance" that sparked controversy (that wasn't really necessary), the town is paying for that lapse in judgment.

Should have just let the wolf leave town instead of giving it reason to call the pack...
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 4:22:00 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
No one "decided" to punish the whole town. The restaurant just left such caused so much bad publicity that people just shied away from the county altogether.


Nah, that was the Trump supporters who protested the place. Did you actually read the article you linked to and quoted?

How is protesting one restaurant

an attempt to damage the entire town
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JE19426
09/04/18 4:28:12 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
How is protesting one restaurant

an attempt to damage the entire town


Standing outside a restaurant protesting, effects more than just that restaurant.
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Sephiroth1288
09/04/18 4:33:15 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
How is protesting one restaurant

an attempt to damage the entire town


Standing outside a restaurant protesting, effects more than just that restaurant.

Unless you're making the insane suggestion that a dozen people standing outside one restaurant in an entire town is enough to cripple tourism for that whole town, I have no idea what your point is supposed to be.
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KamenRiderBlade
09/04/18 4:33:56 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Standing outside a restaurant protesting, effects more than just that restaurant.
Protest that wouldn't be happening if the Restaurant owner decided to leave his politics at home and just worked as he normally does for every other customer.
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JE19426
09/04/18 4:40:35 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
Unless you're making the insane suggestion that a dozen people standing outside one restaurant in an entire town is enough to cripple tourism for that whole town, I have no idea what your point is supposed to be.


Cripple is an exaggeration of the effects the town has felt, but that is in fact what caused it. I mean do you really think people went "I was going to visit this one area, but since a single restaurant there, sucks I'm just going to skip it".
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Mal_Fet
09/04/18 4:44:56 AM
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JE19426 posted...
Sephiroth1288 posted...
Unless you're making the insane suggestion that a dozen people standing outside one restaurant in an entire town is enough to cripple tourism for that whole town, I have no idea what your point is supposed to be.


Cripple is an exaggeration of the effects the town has felt, but that is in fact what caused it.

No, the article quite clearly says it was the negative publicity by the restaurant that caused the crippled tourism. And yes I would use the word "cripple" since they literally had to dig into their emergency funds in order to try to solve the problem.

I mean do you really think people went "I was going to visit this one area, but since a single restaurant there, sucks I'm just going to skip it".

Since that restaurant is basically all most people know Lexington for? Yeah it seems that way. And the author appears to agree with me.
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JE19426
09/04/18 5:20:29 AM
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Mal_Fet posted...
No, the article quite clearly says it was the negative publicity by the restaurant that caused the crippled tourism. And yes I would use the word "cripple" since they literally had to dig into their emergency funds in order to try to solve the problem.


They spent $15,000 from a reserve that generally increases by $160,000 a year, you can call that crippled if you want, but that seems like a massive exaggeration to me.

Since that restaurant is basically all most people know Lexington for? Yeah it seems that way. And the author appears to agree with me.


The articles spends more time talking about the protesters then the restaurant kicking Sarah Sanders out, so if the author agrees with you I'd say the author sucks.

Also both Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried in the area, and the only home Jackson owns is there, so it's better known for more than a restaurant. The article says most visitors are go there for it's natural beauty and historic sites.
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Mal_Fet
09/04/18 5:45:19 AM
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JE19426 posted...
They spent $15,000 from a reserve

So far. They're going to be spending $5,000 per month

Imagine how all those local taxpayers feel knowing those douchebag owners gave their town such a bad name that their money has to go to damage control so that the restaurant wouldn't have to serve one family a ~$50 meal.

JE19426 posted...
The articles spends more time talking about the protesters then the restaurant kicking Sarah Sanders out,

There is exactly 1 sentence in the entire article that mentions the protesters

Did you even read it
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LightningAce11
09/04/18 5:55:35 AM
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Everyone in the trump administration is judged according to their character. MLK would be proud.
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JE19426
09/04/18 5:57:03 AM
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Mal_Fet posted...
So far. They're going to be spending $5,000 per month


They've made a plan specifically to spend $15,000 over three months. Get back to me when they still spending 5k a month next year.

There is exactly 1 sentence in the entire article that mentions the protesters

Did you even read it


I did read it, which is why I noticed the restaurant refusing to serve Sarah Sanders was giving a single sentence at the end of a paragraph, and a half sentence about Sarah Sanders tweet, while giving the protesters two sentences.
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Mal_Fet
09/04/18 6:03:36 AM
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JE19426 posted...
They've made a plan specifically to spend $15,000 over three months.

Quote it.

JE19426 posted...
I did read it, which is why I noticed the restaurant refusing to serve Sarah Sanders was giving a single sentence at the end of a paragraph, and a half sentence about Sarah Sanders tweet, while giving the protesters two sentences.

Unless you're hilariously counting the photo description at the beginning, no, there's one sentence.

Meanwhile, the Sarah Sanders controversy is mentioned in at least 5 of the paragraphs.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE
09/04/18 6:12:30 AM
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Story headline should read

"Town realizes they have nothing to live off of other than the money of people visiting their confederate idols"
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09/04/18 6:14:05 AM
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