MNSOS messaging, Pt 3: In May, MNGOP activist first saw southern flavor in Severson logo

Hmmm. http://t.co/3gcsNjACHj #mngop14 pic.twitter.com/CXQBcK4Dpm

— Jeff Kolb (@jpkolb) May 30, 2014

As the May 30, 2014 tweet by Republican activist Jeff Kolb illustrates, University of Minnesota graphic design prof Carol Waldron and labor leader Javier Morillo-Alicea weren't the only ones--or even the first-- to see a resemblance between endorsed Republican Secretary of State candidate Dan Severson's logo and the Stars & Bars of the Confederacy.

The link Kolb included in his tweet leads to this Youtube:

Set in fictional Hazzard County, Georgia, The Dukes of Hazzard ran on CBS from 1979 through 1985.

If Severson can't see the resemblance in his logo, that's no reason for his campaign to call out others for doing so.

Our earlier posts on the logo:

U of M prof picks up on curious visual message in MNGOP Dan Severson's SOS campaign logo

MNSOS Billboard Edition: Severson campaign gets more flack about curious message in design

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Comments

[Phoenix Woman]

Just wait till he posts endorsements from Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[Phoenix Woman]

And the name of the Duke boys' favorite car? The "General Lee", of course. Which sported the Confederate Battle Flag.

By the way, the Confederate Battle Flag and other Confederacy-evoking symbols weren't commonly waved around for decades after the end of the Civil War; decent people wouldn't allow it. It wasn't until the various enforcers of institutionalized racism started their fight against civil rights that there was this movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s to put either the Battle Flag or the Stars and Bars into each of the Deep South's state flags.