The sight of the image of America's first black president juxtaposed next to a Confederate flag may be jarring to some, but 16-year-old Lee County resident Ryan Turner, the founder of the grassroots "Rednecks for Obama" movement (or something), says the use of the images together is meant to show that the president has broad support.

Turner's father died ten years ago from prostate cancer. The disease could have been easily treatable, but the elder Turner was without health insurance and passed away. Ryan Turner believes Obamacare would prevent such needless deaths in the future.



Turner started a "Rednecks for Obama" Facebook page and on the opening of the new Lee County Democrats headquarters he brought a flag which combined Shepard Fairey's famous "Hope" poster with the Confederate flag.

"If somebody is offended by it, I can understand it because they're only seeing one half of the flag," Ryan's uncle Tony Turner told NBC2.