In case you missed this, my friend Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift has a wonderful post on the holiday Virginia celebrates today, Lee-Jackson Day.
But do we really need a special day to honor two generals who led the insurrection and caused the deaths of several hundred thousand Americans because they wanted to preserve their twisted society?
It is high-time that true Republicans remember what it means to be a Republican and disavow the so-called “Southern Strategy”.
Good job, Jim 
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An awesome post indeed, thanks Vivian!
if lee-jackson where alive today they might be charged with war crimes, yes it is part of our history but, they do not need to be put up as hero’s, a south that is dead and gone thank god the good guys won, yes i am from chicago, il, thank you.
If they were alive today they would be smelly at the very least… I mean think how old they would be! Like Hefner… gross!
In a multicultural society, Southern White culture can’t be excluded simply because it’s not politically correct. It has as much a place as any other.
In Virginia, that means saluting our Confederate past. You may not like it, but many do.
Robert Lee and Stonewall Jackson were two of the greatest generals ever to fight on the North American continent. And for everybody that wants to put these guys down for slavery, Robert Lee didn’t believe in slavery, and much of the South didn’t
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