No 'Rebels' 'Round Here. South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina

AUGUST 7, 2020


**  Virginia high school drops Confederate nickname 'Rebels.'  (Douglas S. Freeman High School in Henrico County.  In Sad Richmond.  Douglas Freeman wrote the acclaimed multi-volume series of books "R.E. Lee", "Lee's Lieutenants" and "George Washington.  As such, they are going to have to consider changing the name of the school.   Maybe they could call the school's teams the Seceshes?)

**  Mayor White:  COVID-19, police accountability slow  Greenville's Confederate monument plans.  (South Carolina)

**  Albemarle County votes to remove 111-year-old Confederate  soldier statue.  (Charlottesville, Sad Virginia.  Exactly how long does it take some people to discover that they are offended.  111 years seems like a real long time.)

**  Confederate statue removed from Denton's square after 21-year fight.  (Texas.  Well, at least "they" knew 21-years ago that '"they" were offended.)

**  Black cheerleader quits after squad poses with Confederate flag shirt.   (Daphne High School in Daphne, Alabama.  Six white cheerleaders posed with a tee shirt with the words I (heart with a Confederate flag in it) Redneck Boys.  Notice that the white in white cheerleaders was not capitalized.  Should it have been?  I guess we should be offended by the term Redneck and Redneck boys.  But not.)

**  Moving NC Confederate statue 'smacks of  ethnic genocide,' woman says ahead of  protest.  (Gaston)

--Old Redneck Boy Secesh

The Confederate Battle Flag's Divisive History-- Part 3: Used by Confederate Veteran Groups and College Football

Continued from October 11 and 22, 2019.

Over the past half century, John Coski, who wrote a book about it, said it has evolved into "a widely and carelessly used symbol of many things, including the South as a distinctive region, individual rebelliousness, a self conscious 'redneck' culture, and segregation and racism."

There are several key periods in the flag's divisive history:

**  Post Civil War:  For decades after the war, the flag was used largely by veterans' groups at parades and as a symbol of Southern heritage.  Especially used by the United Confederate Veterans which was the main group for them.

**  1940s:  The flag appears at Southern college and university football games and some other cultural events that were not directly related to the war.

--Old Secesh