APRIL 26, 2023
** Mississippi and Alabama celebrate Confederate Memorial Day as efforts to abolish holiday stall.
** New Florida bill would empower defenders of Confederate monuments.
** Nikki Haley compares abortion divide to Confederate flag debate.
** CAIR repeats call for elimination of Confederate Memorial Day holiday in Alabama. (Again. Islamists weighing in on the issue?)
I Always Have To Smile When I See CAIR Piping In. --Old Secesh
APRIL 24, 2023
** State offices closed today for Confederate holiday. (Alabama. Don't tell SPLC.)
** Groups again call for cancellation of Stone Mountain Confederate event. (Georgia. Wonder who wants the cancellation.)
** Descendants of Robert E. Lee and those he enslaved reconcile at Arlington House. (Virginia)
** Alabama and Mississippi mark Confederate Memorial Day.
Well, If You Do Not Like Confederate Memorial Day, Don't Ce;ebrate It. --Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
** Lonegan and Space spar over Confederate flag tattoos in GOP Senate primary. (New Jersey)
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FEBRUARY 17, 2023
** A battle at the Alabama courthouse: Resolution sparks renewed focus on Confederate monuments.
** How the world's largest Confederate memorial exists on one of Georgia's blackest cities. (Stone Mountain, Georgia)
Tat Me Baby, One to the Bar. --Old Secesh
JANUARY 28, 2023
** CAIR welcomes order to remove Ala. Confederate statue, urges Miss. lawmakers to remove Confederate statues from Congress. (Council on American-Islamic Relations. I'd like to see them welcome an order to make their folks stop mistreating women and non-Islamic folks. Wouldn't you?)
** Briscoes were kept off AEW TV by WBD due to past tweets, Confederate flag gear. (Even wrestling now? Must be a CAIR thing.)
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JANUARY 30, 2023
** Ruling paves way to remove Tuskegee Confederate statue. (Alabama. Lots of articles about this these days.)
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 27, 2023
** A Confederate general was reburied and the funeral pictures are troubling. (MSN. I find this MSN headline troubling.)
** Mississippi leaders hersitant to replace white supremacist statues in Washington. (Jefferson Davis and James Z. George. Both were also Confederates.)
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JANUARY 28, 2023
** Confederate group instructed to remove Tuskegee statue, court record says. (Alabama. UDC.)
--Old Secsh
JANUARY 26, 2023
** Funeral for Confederate general reburied in Virginia sparks backlash. (Mostly online. I don't think any persons were crass enough to show up at the solemn proceedings of the reburial to spout their hatred.)
** Lee Park and rec center renamed. (Alxandria, Va.)
** Fort Rucker may take on a new name this year. (Alabama. It will be renamed Fort Novosel.)
You Just Can't Satisfy Some Folks. --Old Secesh
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
** Confederate flag controversy spurs changes to Return Day Parade. (Delaware)
** Democrats protest against Confederate flag during Return Day parade. (Delaware. Imagine Democrats protesting agains Confederate flags?)
** Tense night as Montgomery board renames Lee, Jeff Davis high schools. (Alabama. Again, if the majority of the students are Blacks in these schools I completely back renaming the schools. Both are renamed for Blacks. Why does all renaming have to be for black people? Are Blacks the only ones who deserve schools to be renamed for?)
--Old Secesh
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
** Spartanburg County: Pole with SC flag that replaced Confederate on I-85 still in violation. (South Carolina)
** Confederate flag deters Delaware Democrats from Return Day tradition.
** This professor was fired for her political speech: Now, she's getting her job back. (Collins College. Supported removing Confederate monuments.)
** Superintendent says MPS will rename Lee, Davis high schools by December. (Montgomery, Alabama)
--Old Secesh
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
** Protecting Confederate monuments: How statues across the state of North Carolina remain standing. (There are 173 Confederate symbols across the state as well as 42 monuments in front of courthouses.)
** Confederate camp raises new flag amid calls for flag along I-85 to come down. (South Carolina. The camp is the Adam Washington Ballenger Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They raised a version of the S.C. state flag.)
** Alabama's Confederate mansions get state funding, distort our history.
** A Jewish perspective on Arlington's Confederate memorial.
--Old Secesh
OCTOBER 12, 2022
** Bubba Wallace had to Google the Confedrate flag before leading NASCAR ban in 2020. (He was not aware what it stood for.)
** Loudon school board to get a look at segregationist school names. (Virginia)
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OCTOBER 13, 2022
** Renaming Fort Hood explained: Who is General Richard ? (Texas)
** SECDEF approves renaming 9 military bases.
** Fort Rucker renamed after honorary military officer -- check it out. (Enterprise, Alabama. It will be named after Chief Warrant Officer Michael Novosel, Sr., a Medal of Honor recipient and veteran of WW II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and a resident of Enterprise. What greater honor for this renaming. I totally agree with it.)
--Old Secesh
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
** White supremacist arrested at Hollywood Florida street sign protest. (What an idiot.)
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
** Mayor asks North Carolina governor to declare state of emergency after threats over Confederate monument removal. (Enfield. What an idiot. If other idiots are actually making threats, that is idiocy as well. Have a recall vote and/or next election, don't vote for the idiot.)
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
** 2 years after pledge to rename Confederate schools, students left wondering when. (Montgomery, Alabama)
** Plane pulls Confederate flag over NASCAR All-Star race, (Sorry Bubba.)
All This Proves Is That There Are Idiots on Both Sides of the Issue.
Don't Vote for Idiots!! --Old Secesh
JUNE 22, 2022
** Contractor turns demolished Confederate monuments into NFT collection. (Sad R. He made a whole lot of money taking them down and had a definite political in with his bud, the mayor of Sad R.)
** Two of Macon's Confederate monuments begin moving this week. (Georgia)
** Giles County to remove Confederate memorabilia from jury deliberation room. (Tennessee. I can agree with this move. They have no business being in a place where juries decide a person's fate.)
** South Dakota town to hold Civil War festival with Confederate flag. (Canton, S.D. Oh NOOOOOOOO! How horrible of them.)
** Selma Confederate monument theft case: Trial set for 2023. (Alabama. I am surprised the people who stole it are being prosecuted instead of receiving heroes medals.)
** 2 Confederate monuments to be relocated from downtown Macon to outside Rose Hill Cemetery. (Georgia)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 20, 2022
** Lots of Juneteenth articles.
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JUNE 21, 2022
** What happened to the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was in front of Lee High? (Montgomery, Alabama. It was messed up during the Floyd/BLM riots in 2020.)
** SC recognizes Confederate Memorial Day, but not Juneteenth. (So?)
** c(C)onfederate holiday removal signed by Edwards. (Louisiana. Governor John Bel Edwards.)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 11, 2022
** SPLC to screen movie, discuss Confederate monuments Saturday. (Montgomery, Alabama. Do you think it wil be pro-Confederate or racist?)
** Baltimore's 4 Confederate monuments to be part of Los Angeles art show. (These monuments should have been given to the SCV or UDC. I'm sure they will be shown in a negative light.)
** Duluth community, school district responds after student brought a c(C)onfederate flag to Denfeld. (Denfeld HighSchool, Duluth, Minnesota.)
** California's absurd focus on slavery reparations. (California reparations? Get serious folks.)
** Shenandoah County School Board votes against restoring c(C)onfederate school names. (Virginia. Thus avoiding a SPLC list.)
Wouldn't It Be Something for Some Journalists to Learn That Confederate is Capitalized? --Old Secesh
JUNE 6, 2022
** Memory box found inside Caddo Confederate monument. (Louisiana. About the only good thing that comes of removing Confederate monuments.)
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JUNE 7, 2022
** For Confederate bases, name change long overdue. (Virginia Mercury)
** Two time capsules found as Caddo's Confederate monument is being removed. (Louisiana)
** Debate continues over Alabama holidays honoring Confederacy.
** Bill to remove Confederate holidays sent to the governor. (Louisiana)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 5, 2022
** Confederate flag earpiece at Rock Plaza. (Country singer Trace Adkins wore one at a concert. How horrible of him. Wait till SPLC finds about this. They might put him on a list.)
** NASCAR banned the Confederate flag in 2020. Company insiders explain how it happened. (You know, that Bubba guy who Kappynappered it.)
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JUNE 6, 2022
** La. Senate approves cutting Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee Day from the state's holiday list.
** Alabama state offices close for holiday honoring Jeff Davis. (What will SPLC have to say about that. Probably will put the state on a list.)
--Old Secesh
MAY 12, 2022
** Special Report: The Confederacy legacy lingering in Las Cruces. (New Mexico. John Robert Baylor sign. SPLC sniffed this one out. Made the list, you know. Ain't no Confeds getting past these guys.)
** In these three states, 'Confederate Memorial Day' is still observed. (South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama. But, yet, we can celebrate Juneteenth?)
** Hamilton council votes to support ban on hate symbols, including Confederate flag and swastika. (Canada. Did they also include BLM material?)
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MAY 13, 2022
** Shenandoah County School Board to discuss restoration of c(C)onfederate school names. (Virginia. Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School were renamed in 2020. Boy is this going to make SPLC mad.)
** Centreville man pleads guilty after setting truck with Confederate flag sticker on fire. (Maryland)
--Old Secesh
MAY 9, 2022
** South Carolina marks Confederate Memorial Day on Tuesday.
** Alabama judge refuses dismissal in Confederate chair theft.
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MAY 10, 2022
** Confederate street renaming process up for council consideration. (Fairfax City, Virginia)
** Confederate monument debate to start anew in Jacksonville. (Florida)
NOPD: Two of three suspects arrested in theft of Confederate cemetery chair worth $500,000. (I doubt seriously that that chair is worth $500,000.)
--Old Secesh
April 26, 2022
** SPLC denounces Confederate Memorial Day, recognizes removal of monuments. (How would Gomer put it? "Surprise, surprise, surprise." How racist of them.)
** States will recognize Confederate Memorial Day while others distance themselves from it.
** Alabamians remain divided over keeping Confederate Memorial Day. (Put it to a people vote.)
** Group speaks out against Confederate Memorial Day. (Tupelo, Mississippi. About a dozen people. You sure didn't see the other side out protesting when Juneteenth became a holiday.)
** A day to celebrate? Confederate Memorial Day is still on the books in FL. (Florida)
Seems Like This Opens a Big Ol' Can of Worms. --Old Secesh
APRIL 24, 2022
** State offices close for Confederate Memorial Day. (North Carolina)
** State offices close for Confederate Memorial Day. (Alabama. Boy, are BLM, NAACP and SPLC going to mad about this. SPLC will probably make a list about it.)
** Lusher Charter School finally gets a new name, ending homage to Confederate official. (New Orleans. Robert Mills Lusher was a Confederate tax collector and white supremacist.)
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APRIL 25, 2022
** Motion to remove Confederate monument from Bell County historic courthouse fails. (Belton, Texas)
Hey, SPLC, Where's the List of Bad Old States Still Having Confederate Memorial Day? Maybe also Make One About Riots and Looting Connected to BLM in 2020. --Old Secesh
