Posted on 09/16/2016 8:14:03 AM PDT by C19fan
Nine years ago, a driver lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into the Confederate monument on the front lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse, decapitating the marble soldier. Some locals who found the monument offensive said they were glad to see it go, but there was never much doubt that once the money was raised, the soldier would be back. The rededication ceremony in 2010 drew a crowd of about 500 people—women wore hoop skirts and men donned the gray uniforms of Confederate soldiers. “We’re very proud of it,” says Linda Stanley, managing director of the Franklin County Historical Society in Rocky Mount, Virginia, 25 miles southeast of Roanoke. “This whole county’s very, very patriotic.”
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Anything that honors any white person should be demolished.
White people bad. “People of color” good.
The illegal aliens and Yankees are ruining this once great commonwealth.
Personally, I get along with Mexicans better than Massachutties <<Gesundheit!>>.
I call them “Massachushitters”. (-:
I recently read a book called “Maryland, My Maryland” by Joyce Bennett, a Marylander of colonial British ancestry whose family lived in the state for many generations. This book is a series of essays decrying the gradual Yankeefication of what had been a Tidewater Southern-oriented state in all respects. It appears that Virginia is well on the same path, and to various degrees, so are all the South Atlantic states.
This is a misleading line. Makes it sound like Virginia standard issue license plates all had the Confederate Flag.
Virginians can choose specialty plates. I think there are about 200 options and one included a Confederate Flag.
I'm surprised Jeff Davis Highway (Route 1) has not been re-named. In my area, surrounded by big Civil War battlefields, we have Robert E. Lee Grade School. My polling center is at Battlefield School -- bad name for a school.
I’m from Massachusetts and I have no problem with Confederate statuary or the Stars and Bars.
Confederate troops fought bravely and well, with leadership that was often better than what the Union fielded. Slavery sucked but the issues of states’ rights and secession are very much alive today.
I pray we never again see such a conflict as divided us before, but if such a conflict arose I’m not sure which side I’d take.
My understanding it is government employees (at least in N. Virginia) that are diluting the body politic?
Richmond is seeing an influx as well.
There are Battlefield schools all over the place. I just did a Bing search and was astounded.
Are you in the Richmond area?
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy, who capital was in Richmond. It makes perfect sense for his statue to be in Richmond. Of course, the left will not stop until all Confederate soldiers have been dis-interred and cremated with their ashes dumped into a nearby river.
I'm surprised. I'm in the Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania/Chancellorsville/Wilderness battlefields area.
There’s one in GA, we have one in Mechanicsville (Richmond suburb), there’s one in Haymarket, VA, Prince William county VA
Don’t lump us all in the same basket. I’m a former yankee, still follow the Pats and BoSox. My friends say that my politics are slightly to the right of Atilla-The-Hun. I’m doing my part to return VA to solid RED. It’s those DC sycophants that have ruined a once great State.
Help preserve Southern heritage.
Join Sons of Confederate Veterans
http://www.scv.org/
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