April is Confederate History Month in Dixie

American Chronicle ^ | March 20, 2008 | Calvin Johnson

[cowboyway]

South Carolina observes Confederate Memorial Day on May 10th.

[ottbmare]

Here we go. We can now anticipate a 4000-post thread about How The Confederates Were All Traitors—No They Were Not.

[cowboyway]

We can now anticipate a 4000-post thread about How The Confederates Were All Traitors

Those arguments are usually posted out of ignorance of history and, in a lot of cases, a hatred of Southerners.

[Comparative Advantage]

Typical Southern racists! /s

[JaneNC]

Well, I have lived in the South all my life. I had no idea that April was “Confederate” History month.

[Comparative Advantage]

I went to Robert E. Lee Elementary school for one year in second grade back in the 70’s in Newport News, Virginia. I wonder if it is still named that or if it is now Malik Zulu Shabazz Elementary.

[ml/nj]

Is this allowed?

ML/NJ

[JaneNC]

Robert E. Lee was a brilliant man. Of course it is allowed.

[cowboyway]

Well, I have lived in the South all my life. I had no idea that April was “Confederate” History month.

And a lot of native Southerners don't have a clue about the War of Southern Independence. I recommend reading The South Under Siege - 1830 to 2000 by Frank Conner. (Click HERE for a review.)

State governments that regularly and traditionally have declared Confederate History Month are as follows:

Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas (since 1999)
Virginia
Florida (since 2007)

[cowboyway]

Is this allowed?

Thankfully, yes.

In South Carolina, Confederate Memorial Day is an official holiday.

2008 State Holiday Schedule for South Carolina

New Year's Day
Tuesday, January 1

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday, January 21 (3rd Monday in January)

George Washington's Birthday / President's Day
Monday, February 18 (3rd Monday in February)

Confederate Memorial Day
Friday, May 9

National Memorial Day
Monday, May 26 (Last Monday in May)

Independence Day
Friday, July 4

Labor Day
Monday, September 1 (First Monday in September)

Veterans Day
Tuesday, November 11

Thanksgiving Day
Thursday, November 27 (Fourth Thursday in November)

Day after Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 28

Christmas Day
Thursday, December 25

Day after Christmas
Friday, December 26

[cowboyway]

I went to Robert E. Lee Elementary school for one year in second grade back in the 70’s in Newport News, Virginia. I wonder if it is still named that or if it is now Malik Zulu Shabazz Elementary.

Robert E. Lee elementary schools in the US:

Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Amarillo, Texas)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Austin, Texas)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Columbia, Missouri)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Dallas, Texas)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Denton, Texas)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Durant, Oklahoma)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (East Wenatchee, Washington)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (El Paso, Texas)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Hampton, Virginia)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Hugo, Oklahoma)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Jackson, Mississippi)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Long Beach, California)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Richmond, Virginia)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Satsuma, Alabama)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Spotsylvania, Virginia)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Tampa, Florida)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Tullahoma, Tennessee)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (San Diego, California)

Perhaps the one you went to was in Hampton, VA?

If so, it still survives!!!!

[Comparative Advantage]

It must have been Hampton, VA.

Thanks!

[radar101]

I have only been in five states and DC. One of those states is Texas. Almost every Texas town has a staue like this:

Although the Confederate soldier statue that stands guards outside the Loudoun County Courthouse (Virginia) is not quite 100 years old, the fundraising effort behind the sculpture began well over a century ago.

The most vile thing you can call someone is a "Yankee".

Everyone has an ancestor who fought with the Confederate Cause.

Everyone knows that basically the War was about State's Rights, and against a Fedeal dictatorship.

[usmcobra]

I have no hatred for southerners, I am one, but let’s study the issue truthfully, the confederacy was created by democrats in order that they would not have to debate or vote on slavery in the halls of congress.

Too many southron scholars see Lincoln’s brilliant tactic of offering a permanence to slavery to the south as sign he was willing to allow it to be formally legalized in the United States Constitution, he wasn’t so inclined. He wanted a debate and a vote knowing that in Congress the forces of slavery would surely lose, they knew it too and so the confederacy was born to escape the debate over slavery.

[cowboyway]

Almost every Texas town has a staue like this:

The last time I was in my hometown, the local SCV was sprucing up the memorial to the Confederate dead in the cities Willow Dale Cemetery.

Designed in 1853 by Colonel Charles Nelson, this historically significant cemetery features an 1883 Confederate Monument, which underneath lies the mass grave of 800 Confederate soldiers. See the resting place of Jarad K. White, a Texas soldier killed in 1865 while fighting with the Texas Calvary in northern Wayne County. White’s grave receives a Texas flag each year.

Confederate War Memorial in Salem, South Carolina, where I now live.

[SouthTexas]

The most vile thing you can call someone is a "Yankee".

There's yankees and there are d*mn yankees.

[ottbmare]

Those arguments are usually posted out of ignorance of history and, in a lot of cases, a hatred of Southerners.

I fully agree.

[cowboyway]

I have no hatred for southerners, I am one, but let’s study the issue truthfully, the confederacy was created by democrats in order that they would not have to debate or vote on slavery in the halls of congress.

First of all, you can't equate an 1860 democrat with a 2008 democrat. I mean, can you see a Barack Obama running for anything on an 1860 democrat ticket?

Second, I have studied the issue. If you remove slavery as the occasion for secession and add any one of the other divisive issues between north and South the results would be the same.

He wanted a debate and a vote knowing that in Congress the forces of slavery would surely lose, they knew it too and so the confederacy was born to escape the debate over slavery.

Lincoln wanted a centralized government and a dictatorship. He got one out of two.

[353FMG]

When I grew up there were only Damn Yankees and F**king Rebels and they were all members of the Greatest Generation this country ever produced.

[radar101]

Damn Straight!

When I grew up there were only Damn Yankees and ____ Rebels and they were all members of the Greatest Generation this country ever produced.