Seriously, Tennessee is a great state with a lot of historical heroes to honor who didn't commit war crimes and help launch the nationalization of the Klan
And good lord, the South is not merely "states who lost a war," the South has far better symbols than the Confederacy and the Klan (and the South also contains a lot of black people! they are also Southern!)
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When Bush won in 2004 I remember thinking "we're going to be at war for the rest of my life" and well
My parents were staunchly against the war (they also opposed Vietnam, the bombings in Libya in '86, and the Gulf War, and the War in Afghanistan) and our household felt at the time like a very strange island in a sea of people whom I did not understand.
I'm transitioning from a Tudor history wormhole to a history of neurology wormhole which leads me to this article and to the fact that Charles Guiteau was not in tip top mental shape. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
This is from the book “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons”