Posted on 04/24/2005 6:08:20 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Southern heritage buffs vow to use the Virginia gubernatorial election as a platform for designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.
The four candidates have differing views on the Confederacy, an issue that has been debated for years in the commonwealth.
"We're not just a few people making a lot of noise," said Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the oldest hereditary organization for male descendents of Confederate soldiers. "This is not a racial thing; it is good for Virginia. We're going to keep pushing this until we get it."
Each candidate recently shared his thoughts on what Mr. Bowling called a "litmus test for all politicians." Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would not support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Former state Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore would support something that recognizes everyone who lived during the Civil War.
Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr. and Warrenton Mayor George B. Fitch would support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Many past Virginia governors honored the Civil War or the Confederacy.
In 1990, former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first black governor, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, issued a proclamation praising both sides of the war and remembering "those who sacrificed in this great struggle."
Former Govs. George Allen and James S. Gilmore III, both Republicans, issued Confederate History Month proclamations. In 2000, Mr. Gilmore replaced that proclamation with one commemorating both sides of the Civil War -- a move that enraged the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, has refused to issue a gubernatorial decree on either side of the Civil War.
Mr. Kaine, another Democrat, would decline to issue a Confederate History and Heritage Month proclamation if he is elected governor, said his campaign spokeswoman, Delacey Skinner.
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IF you CAN ,and you cannot, as it is an OUTRIGHT LIE (aren't you SMART enough to KNOW that it's a LIE?? or are you hoping WE are dumb enough to believe you FALSE accusations???), provide an ORIGIONAL SOURCE from an ORIGIONAL DOCUMENT for your contention.
otherwise, ADMIT you are LYING to me/everyone here.
aren't you ASHAMED to be a TOOL of the LEFT????
free dixie,sw
You can kiss Texas and Florida goodbye to Azatlan, too. Maybe North Carolina at the rate they're going.
"Then the Confederate apologists (such as yourself), said that slavery was not theft and that one was not harming slaves.(since they were in fact treated well) "
Slavery is NOT theft. Read the Word before you preach it!
"and that one was not harming slaves.(*IF* they were in fact treated well)"
Again, who were the "many" you cite as "supporting slavery"
(Note, you may want to actually READ my posts before you put me in that list. Same with any other person.)
PLEASE do NOT capitialize my Freeper name.
it is at least Quasi-Religious/cultural, thing with us Indians.
free dixie,sw
at the rate things are going, NC may end up as a DAMNYANKEE state!
free dixie,sw
You are the EPITOME of what we wanted to leave. If thiat's how you feel then get off the threads. Take your pathetic victory over a starved and subjugated South, put on your robe of moral superiority, celebrate the wanton destruction and death that occured. It took a superior foe - the Union - with 21 million people, and millions of immigrants each year, over 4 years to starve the South into submission, and then, only by waging war on innocent women and children defending their homes, silverware, livestock and farms.
you might also have reminded him of the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of WAR CRIMES committed against helpless POWs & INNOCENT civilians by the "filth that flowed down from the north".
DAMNyankees REALLY hate it when i remind them of the CRIMES of their ancestors.
free dixie,sw
Don't forget to insert < br > to make spaces for paragraphs as well.
I don't suppose you ever heard of the REPUBLIC of TEXAS?
"Sorry no web site results found."
Squattie, I think you got confused with "Lane Bryant," you know, where you buy your muu muus.
opinions are like bellybuttons. most of them stink.
free dixie,sw
i knew you were DENSE, but NOT that you had joined him/her in that FALLACY of LOGIC????
under the BEST of circumstances,MUCH of what is on the WWW is SIMPLISTIC,ill-informed or FALSE. much of what is there is INTENTIONALLY false.
NO information, of the sort i'm discussing, is available anyplace but in "dusty tomes", hidden away in the stacks of libraries. we are talking here about "dissertation level research" rather than "comic book research".
this situation MAY change in a few years as the University of Chicago is considering putting everything in their libraries on the web. that will be a long & difficult project, that will cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
free dixie,sw
You need to change your handle to: "School for Idiots"
Nothing rational about your way of thinking.....
Guess again: Texas was a REPUBLIC until 1845......
yea...sure, and I have some oceanfront property in Utah....
for sale cheap!
OK, If you start breaking into that song from the "Sound of Music" I'm leaving....:))
You mean we DIDN'T beat our slaves all day, and eat collard greens all night!? Just darn. :) (SARCASM)
And you are being shown for what YOU are. a Person advocating genocide & cultural-cleansing in the South.
All in the name of your warped sense of History.
It is people like you that would burn the South to the ground again, if you got the chance.
You should be posting on DU with all your liberal left-wing, affirmative action buddies!
We would much rather put up a minefield and fence on the Mason-Dixon to keep you Yankees OUT!
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