Brunswick County (Part), Chesapeake City (Part), Franklin City (Part), Isle of Wight County (Part), Portsmouth City (Part), Southampton County (Part), Suffolk City (Part), Emporia City (All), Greensville County (All), Sussex County (All), Surry County (Part)
Flag-waving is a fallacious argument or propaganda technique used to justify an action based on the undue connection to nationalism or patriotism or benefit for an idea, group or country. It is a variant of argumentum ad populum.
To me, the citizen who runs around waving the American flag, pledges his support to the government in Washington, and goes along with what that government says is the same thing as what the colonials used to call a loyalist.. We Americans never used the word patriot to describe anybody who was a loyalist.