Posted on 05/10/2024 7:43:51 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the U.S. to take such an action.
By a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County board overturned its 2020 decision that stripped a public high school and elementary school of their original names honoring three military leaders of the pro-slavery South in the Civil War.
Under the board's action, Mountain View High School will again become known as Stonewall Jackson High, while Honey Run Elementary School will revert to the name Ashby Lee Elementary.
The names belong to some of the most well-known military leaders of the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee was commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate infantry general, and Turner Ashby was a rebel cavalry commander. All of them were Virginians.
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Wilson may have been born in I think Virginia but his adult life was all yankee
You own him
So big intrusive government is ok as long as MY section or area gets it? That is how we got where we are today. The TVA eas completly Un- Constitutional, as was all of fdr new facist deal.
He considered himself a Southern, and believed that the South was right to Seceed.
He WAS born in VA.
But the Confedrate Constitution had a clause that States could not Seccde. Article 1. Section 10. Clause 1.
You’d think they would have the good sense to realize the one uniting thing about the Civil War: we were ultimately all Americans.
The people whining about certain military bases and other facilities being named after “traitors” should be held in the highest suspicion.
No it doesn't.
10. (I) No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp#:~:text=10.,grant%20any%20title%20of%20nobility.
Do you ever get tired of posting pure BS?
I've read a bunch of books on the subject, thanks
I don't agree that Bryan was a big government candidate. Grant's administration was marked by all kinds of corruption scandals, the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Plains Indians on behalf of the Railroads, and of course massive massive subsidies to big business - like Railroads for example.
I don't disagree Wilson got us into a war we should have stayed out of but he was far from alone in pushing that.
Any Alliance or Confederation means leaving the Confederacy. Nevertheless, Texas would have CERTAINLY left. Thier is NO WAY that Staye would have stayed in the Confederacy.
It sucks but its not as bad as bleeding one section of the country dry and then saying "OK we'll stop with big government now". Bullshit. Keep it going and pour a bunch of money back into my region now that you've sucked it dry for a century and a half taking it from being the richest region to the poorest region. We're still a long way from being even. 140 years is a long time and the Southern states haven't been net recipients for nearly that long.
The Plains Indians were not so innocent.
And if Texas wanted to go, let them go. I'm not for holding people against their will or forcing a government on them that they don't consent to.
The federal government committed ethnic cleansing and genocide against them at the behest of and on behalf of the Railroads....ie the Big Business of their day.
No, not keep it going. It jas led to the problems we have now. We are knee deep in marxist crap. THAT is our Second Civil War we are fighting now, and it began with the traitors Wilson and FDR.
Ridiculous.
You sound like a leftist here. The Indians were fighting each other well before we came. Thier constant reading of American towns, led to a great anger against them.
Hell yes keep it going until the scales are balanced. The federal government and New England in particular had no problem sucking money out of the South using the federal government ie using the federal government "as an engine of Northern aggrandizement" as Jefferson Davis put it" for a century and a half. Cry me a river that now they're net donors and the Southern states are net recipients of federal expenditures. Seems completely just to me. In fact it needs to go on for much longer before we can call it even.
No I don't. Yes the Indians were fighting each other but in what world is it just to come in, slaughter people, steal their land and confine them to concentration camps? The Plains Indians were not constantly raiding American towns either. Do you know how many treaties the federal government made and broke with various tribes? The Leviathan in Washington has long cared about nothing but enhancing its own power.
South Carolina WAS ALWAYS the troublemak8ng State from the very begining. VA got pulled along, so did TX.
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