The "progressives" are mandating everything else, why not a state approved official version of history, too?
Fits right in with this crowd.
Were this crowd in charge then, they’d have simply retreated from South Carolina and said ‘oh well’. When exactly did the slaves stop being slaves in Delaware again ?
Dionne is just turning again, like a dog on its vomit, to the revisionism taken in hand for political indoctrination purposes by the Clinton Administration. Clinton personally commissioned two Red-diaper professors, Eric Foner and James McPherson, to rewrite all the historical materials available at the national military parks, to make sure the visitors get the Democratic message that the South was Morally Wrong because Crackers Are Endogamously Bad.
The Democrats and their media stooges have been pushing that theme since the 1980's. Longer, if you count the civil rights movement as another phase of the campaign. Which has all been about:
- Resistance to socialism, by the "mossbacks" in the 40's, Republicans in the 70's and later, and
- Breaking the "Finkelstein Box" in order to elect Democrats to the Presidency, by alienating "battleground State" voters from Southern conservatives and the "old America".
It's all about establishing a one-armed, corporatist People's Republic on the ruins of the American Experiment.