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When Harley Walker put up the first Trump sign on his front lawn in 2020, the neighborhood rejected it like a bad organ transplant. Within days, someone approached it, ripped it out, and replaced it with a new sign.<\/span><\/p>\n

It read, \u201cNO WHITE HOODS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker was jarred. He wasn\u2019t a racist. He spent his career as a DJ, mixing a diverse blend of genres into his shows. He voted for Obama.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But, he wasn\u2019t surprised. The shameless disrespect, the constant assumptions \u2013 after all, this was why he\u2019d left the Democratic party in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

That night, he ordered 50 more Trump signs. When they came, he strung them up throughout the neighborhood: intersections, telephone poles, and on the surrounding streets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think they got the message not to mess with my signs again,\u201d Walker said.<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker lives in Durham, one of the most Democratic counties in the state, and his particular neighborhood \u2013 the 36th precinct \u2013 is among the most Democratic in Durham. Less than a fifth of Precinct 36 voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Walker is a red dot in a blue sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some ways, he blends in with the rest of Durham. He\u2019s 61 years old with a slight southern drawl and an eager smile. He lives just off of Martin Luther King Parkway. He\u2019s gay.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In front of Walker’s house, the Trump signs shout his support in a neighborhood of Harris supporters. Photo by Sofie Buckminster – The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But on his street, a wide leafy road with big lots and ranch-style homes, he stands out. It\u2019s not just the many crimson \u201cCatholics for Trump\u201d signs that shout his choice to a neighborhood of Harris supporters, or the full-size American and Trump flags that flap in the wind on his flag pole. His neighbor, Mercy, lives across the street. She\u2019s Black. She points to the other homes around him. \u201cThey\u2019re Black, they\u2019re Black, they\u2019re immigrants,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s surrounded by minorities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker grew up steeped in the conservative values of Roanoke, Virginia. He felt his family members\u2019 Republican politics were too judgmental \u2014 so he became a Democrat in spite of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus, there was the gay thing \u2014 in the 1970s, Republicans were far less tolerant of homosexuality than they are today. That was a dealbreaker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, he was a proud Southerner. His great-great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy. Walker says that when he was growing up, he didn\u2019t know anything about the racial tensions involved \u2014 he just knew this flag was part of his family history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In middle school, he volunteered to be the flag boy, in charge of flying and folding the American flag. He still remembers the precise technique \u2014 \u201c13 folds for the 13 colonies!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker moved from Virginia to Durham in 1989 to work as a DJ at the famous queer nightclub, the Power Company. He spent his free time going to raves and befriending an eccentric mix of music producers. He posed for the cover of his mixtape, \u201cHave Harley, Will Travel,\u201d in a skimpy leather getup, chaps and all. He belonged to the counterculture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After he left that job, he worked in retail and is now retired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, he spends his days operating model trains, maintaining his 6,000+ record collection and keeping up with the news on social media or Newsmax, a conservative website\/TV channel that pushed, <\/span>and later retracted<\/span><\/a>, conspiracy theories about Trump winning the 2020 election. He visits his mom down in Florida for a week each month. He lives alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

His house is a museum of his diverse interests. On one wall is a shrine to Jesus with a nativity scene lined with multicolored lava lamps. His holiday tree, which changes by the season, currently features LED lights that blink to the beat of his music and ornaments that include butterflies, angels, birds, a colonial fifer and drummer, a Statue of Liberty, American and Confederate flags, deer, a train and a cherub. <\/span><\/p>\n

Walker, a jolly man with a fuzzy white beard, wears a baseball cap on his head and a handgun on his hip. He did not want to be photographed for this story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

His drift to the political right began with a series of grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n

He says he was fired from the nightclub because of complaints about his wide-ranging music choices by his boss and a drag queen, an incident that he resents to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

When liberals cry for LGBTQ+ rights, he thinks back to this moment. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be grouped in with all the other letters,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI\u2019m just a G.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He also thinks race is invoked too often these days. As evidence, he cites an incident when he worked at a local store and a Black woman called him a racist for not accepting a used item for return. He\u2019d seen real racism, he thought, and this wasn\u2019t it.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019d fled a political party because it was too quick to judge before. Now, he was being pushed in the opposite direction for the same reason. And he felt being gay wasn\u2019t a barrier to conservatism anymore: \u201cAll the bigots died,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercy, who asked that her last name not be used, lives across from Walker with her husband, Thomas, and their 12-year-old daughter. The couple is in their thirties, and they work for a corporate event company Mercy founded. Their house sits at the end of a long, tree-lined driveway \u2014 a contrast to Walker\u2019s bold streetside display.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercy met Walker at a neighbor\u2019s housewarming party. He was, by all measures, lovely.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when, a few months later, she says she caught sight of a Confederate flag outside his house, his charm didn\u2019t matter anymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can be the funniest and most personable guy ever,\u201d she said. \u201cBut when you choose to draw that line in the sand, even when you know the names and faces of all the people around you, that tells me all I need to know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t argue with him, and neither does the rest of the block, she said. But their silence is merely sufferance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot that goes unsaid but is deeply felt,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

She feels it when she sees the non-white workers he hires to do his yard and electrical work, toiling beneath his high-flying flags. She feels it when she sees her neighbors\u2019 children in their front yard, playing alongside his field of Trump signs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercy is from D.C. At first, her city-girl instinct was to say something. But Thomas, a lifelong Southerner, kept her calm. To him, it\u2019s better to keep his head down and mind his business. You don\u2019t grow up Black in the South without learning to pick your battles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After 12 years in North Carolina, Mercy agrees. She recognizes that Walker is set in his ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe older the tree, the harder it is to bend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Walker says he voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, but started to sour on the Democrat during his second term. He cites various transgressions: Obama saying that Cambridge police officers <\/span>acted \u201cstupidly,\u201d<\/span><\/a> Michelle Obama reportedly scoffing at the meticulous manner with which the American flag is treated. \u201cThat was huge for me,\u201d he said. (However, it\u2019s not clear that incident really occurred. A Google search of \u201cMichelle Obama American Flag\u201d and other variations produced nothing.) Walker was also disturbed by Obama\u2019s pastor saying <\/span>\u201cGod damn America\u201d<\/span><\/a> in church.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard for a proud American like Walker to ignore it when those kinds of stories keep cropping up. What kind of leader resents the country they\u2019re supposed to represent?<\/span><\/p>\n

For someone who says he avoids \u201cthe news\u201d (\u201cToo many lies!\u201d), Walker is up to date on current events. He scrolls on X, where he follows Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. He listens to Trump rallies on Right Side Broadcasting Network. He frequents Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast on Spotify. And when he turns to TV, it\u2019s usually Newsmax. The channel relies primarily on opinion, boasting programs like \u201cThe Right Squad\u201d and \u201cThe Gorka Reality Check.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When Walker explains his views, he sounds like the media he consumes, relying on anecdotes difficult to verify and offbeat to consumers of mainstream news.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But whatever details sealed the deal for him, Walker sees a political left that lost respect for their country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t change,\u201d he insists. \u201cThe Democratic Party changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s simply a matter of growing older, he acknowledges. Maybe he <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> a tree that\u2019s too old to bend. In a sense, he has remained firmly planted in the values that surrounded him in Roanoke. But knowing that isn\u2019t enough to make him sway with the winds of progressivism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just too much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

His front yard, with its signs and flags, suggests he is a zealous Trumper. But he insists he doesn\u2019t worship the former president. \u201cHe\u2019s not my friend,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThe Trump supporter thing is only about 5% of who I am.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping the signs is not actually about Trump, he says \u2014 it\u2019s about his freedom of speech. Take them down, and he\u2019ll hit the neighborhood with 50 more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, Walker thinks Trump\u2019s path is a noble one: He\u2019s a billionaire, he\u2019s already been president, and he\u2019s been the target of an assassination attempt twice. \u201cI would retire if I were him,\u201d Walker said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal grudges initiated his shift rightward; nationwide resentment cemented it. Walker may be a rebel on the surface, but he is a loyalist at heart. Peel back the experimental music and the neighborhood spats, and you\u2019ll find the same diligently flag-folding middle schooler he\u2019s always been.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From Walker\u2019s perspective, the left is burning the flag while Trump is willing to die for it. And for him, that\u2019s what matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo at top: The American flag and a Trump flag in front of Walker’s house. Photo by Sofie Buckminster – The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> The description of Walker\u2019s holiday tree has been updated to provide more detail about the ornaments on the tree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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