The only thing that has ended about The Civil War is the shooting. I wonder about that sometimes.
No, don't be discouraged, we are talking about a very small and shrinking minority, these days.
When Republican Governor, Nikki Haley of South Carolina, at the urging of, among many others, the state's Republican Senators, one of whom is black, orders removal of Confederate flags from state grounds, then you know something is very different than it was.
I don't agree with her action, I think those flags are just fine.
They honor the courage, loyalty, tenacity & resourcefulness of many Southern ancestors, qualities some of us still admire today.
But the SC governor's action does demonstrate that politics in the Deep South, well, just ain't what they used to be.