Two Congressmen propose adding a right to vote into the US constitution.
TPM Reader CH chimes in on memories of the Confederacy …
Although I am a born and bred Southerner, I agree with your general premise. It absolutely boggles my mind that following the War, General Robert E. Lee became president of Washington College in Virginia, later changed to Washington AND LEE University.
But the entire perspective on the War is different down here, even today. I was in college before I realized we had been on the wrong side of the War. It wasn’t until then that I learned that the War had really been about slavery. Growing up, it never crossed my mind that the South had done anything wrong; I certainly didn’t think of the three 100-foot men on the side of Stone Mountain as being anything less than heroes.
