It’s Shelia Jackson Lee, D-TX.

Thankfully, I do NOT live in her gerrymandered district, but a stone’s throw south and west of it.

Exactly. So Doc, where in VA are you?

they kept promoting him because there was too much paper work to demote him, then he sold our secrets to the USSR. after getting promoted to counter espionage.

We’ll put you on the prayer list.

And tell our friends in Michigan that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The MLK people were insulted by it, and the non-MLK people agreed with them.

I’m just praying there is never a King-Jackson-Lee day in Texas! (Shelia, that is.)

shows Virginia called it Lee-Jackon-King day from 1984-200. I guess I just tried to expunge that from my memory. It is kind of like having statues of Stuart, lee, Jackson, and the tennis star Arthur Ashe on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. I mean, there is a time and a place. There of course is nothing wrong with stautues or remembrances to black men or anyone else, but nothing looks more hokey than a tennis player on Monument Avenue along with the Confederate Generals.

there is an aura there at night, in old Town Alexandria. I totally agree with you about lee. Anyone interested in these men before the war should read “Gone For Soldiers” by Michael Shaara. It is labled historical fiction,but the results and battles are fact. It shows how Lee, Jackson, Grant, Sherman et al fought together to win the projection of force war of that day, the The Mexican War.

As you say, Lee had a difficult decision in resigning. But he finally decided like most men of his day, that his country was his state. Lee knew the war was a mistake and likely a lost cause, but he fought it like no other could, and when others proposed they head for the hills and fight like guerillas, he said no. He kept his honor before the war, during the war, and after the war, he was a man others strive to emulate.

might makes right. The Southerner’s had the right to secede and the North had the right to fight it. Just like how theColonies had the right to secede and the Brits had every right to fight that.

In the end, the victors wrote the final chapter, although we Southerner’s will never forget. I would say 90 percent of pro Confederacy people are glad the North won. It is the honor and glory we look up to, more than the cause, and we see now this enevitable war was enevitably going to put the idea of secesion to bed in the United States.

Shelby Foote said it best when he said before one would say “the United States Are” and after the war they would say “the United States is”. The war gave us the “is”. The nation we are today.

all you mentioned was a state holiday, and if i may say so, a state first among states, but even here you got no mojo. Our culture is trained to disdain the Confederacy and even American Nationalism, we are taught to be citizens of the world, hence, nothing.

…he had an interesting perspective that I had not heard before, re: the right of states to secede.

He did not believe in a right of secession, but that the most persuasive argument in favor of such a right of secession was in favor of the 13 original states.

States that entered the Union after that time did so subject to the existing Constitution and enjoyed the benefits of the Union.

In particular, territory that was purchased (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma & Indian Territories, Missouri, Kansas et al as part of the Louisiana Purchase) was bought & paid for with funds from the collective U.S. Treasury.

Territory that was secured with American blood (read: Texas) could not renounce the bond to Northern states like, say, New Hampshire, or Grant’s home state of Illinois, a mere 15 years later.

As Grant pointed out, the Feds did not retain any of the large expanse of west Texas but ceded it to the State. Texas came into the Union on very favorable terms.

a Confederate Memorial Day and probably still has it on the books. April 26th was the common date for it. That was the day, April 26, 1865, that Johnson surrendered to Sherman, ending the war between large, organized forces though local hostilities continued for many years.

Although Jeff Davis Blvd is still a prominent Mid-City thoroughfare. Wonder how long that’s going to last. (Another Mid-City artery is Banks Ave, presumably named for the commander of the occupying Union garrison, Gen. Banks.)

On Jeff Davis Blvd @ Tulane Ave. (IIRC) stands a bust of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, also known as a prominent leader of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

Favorite son Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard is memorialized by a statue at the front entrance to City Park.

I have always been partial to Jackson, Reagan, and Grover Cleveland.

As a matter of fact, when Lincoln came to Richmond he asked the band to strike up “Dixie”, and said “I always thought it a pretty good tune.”