Irony of this tweet is museums teach reality of the reason for secession and Civil War clearly — slavery. And the party switch over race.
Gov. Bryant is apparently member of Sons of Confederate Veterans who gave him award named after secession guv. From Miss History Museum: 
(Check back here for a thread of relevant museum pics/receipts mid-day. Gotta go to physical therapy!)
OK, more pics ahead from the museums Gov. Phil Bryant wants us to visit. First, though, context. Here's story I broke about him declaring #ConfederateHeritageMonth on behalf of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who run Beauvoir, Jeff Davis' last home: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/feb/…
Jefferson Davis was a large slaveholder as this placard in Mississippi History Museum shows:
SCV recently gave Gov. Bryant the John J. Pettus award named after Mississippi's secessionist, slave-trading governor. Despite Bryant's SCV brethren preaching that the Civil War wasn't over slavery, the Mississippi History Museum is unabashed about it here.
Revisionists like to proclaims that happy slaves fought for the Confederacy. Not really; they abandoned plantations and fought for the north as the Mississippi History Museum teaches:
In Civil War times, the Republican Party was very different than the one Bryant is in today, helping black men get elected after the war and calling for federal programs to help reverse conditions of African Americans. Museum History Museum:
No matter what revisionists try to say about Nathan Bedford Forrest (Hattiesburg is in Forrest County named for him) and the early KKK he helped start, they were a terrorist organization from the beginning. Mississippi History Museum:
More KKK, plus an early mask, in the Mississippi History Museum (none of these are from the Civil Rights Museum):
The Mississippi History Museum also doesn't sugarcoat that the Democratic and Republican Parties basically switched over civil rights and "state's rights" in by the 1960s when Dixiecrats were mad about federal civil-rights legislation. (Read small placard about Trent Lott, too):
So. It's great Gov. @PhilBryantMS is urging people to visit the museums, both of which teach very different history from that espoused by his friends at the SCV, which I unpack in this @guardian story with SCV interviews. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a…
With still more quotes from an SCV leader who teaches black kids in the Delta from a 1900 history book that romanticized slavery. More from him and factchecking on my blog: donnaladd.com
And many more statements about slavery and white supremacy from Confederate leaders themselves here (they didn't have to hide it then): jacksonfreepress.com/weblogs/jackbl…
And a bit of lagniappe: read my column about the opening of the museums and how Sen. Roger Wicker framed Jeff Davis as a "hero." And meet a real hero who died soon after the opening here too: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/dec/…
To sum up: It's stunning to see Gov. Bryant urge people to go to the civil rights and history museums that directly contradict the group he belongs to and the "history" many of them push. Maybe he thinks people who cling to the "lost cause" don't go to real museums? Dunno.
OK, one more. A teaser from the Civil Rights Museum (last pic was from that side, too). I'll hit y'all with receipts from that museum soon, but don't sleep on that Mississippi History Museum and especially that room about King Cotton.
James K. Vardaman was governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908. Read his words in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum:
Here's another Gov. James K. Vardaman quote. Should you one of those who don't understand how horrendous @cindyhydesmith's "public hanging" comment was, maybe this from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will help it make sense.
And NOOOOO, the Confederate flag in the Mississippi State Flag has nothing to do with race, racism or white supremacy. From the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Gov. @PhilBryantMS urged you to visit. As do I.
Finally (maybe), the rebel racists even made racist records. From the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum:
