What's Up With White Shirts in Abandoned Car Doors?

Once you’ve seen one broken-down junker with a white rag in the window, you start seeing them everywhere. Is this just a North Carolina thing? What’s it supposed to mean? Why do so many people do it? And, if so many people are doing the same thing, then where did the idea come from? Reporter Jeremy Markovich investigates to get to the bottom of an old piece of highway folklore.

Read more and see pictures at https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/history-of-white-cloth-in-car-door-window

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