The Dispatch on Confederate Heritage Month and Confederate holidays that are observed in Mississippi:
Mississippi, along with six other states, will recognize April as Confederate Heritage Month. On April 26, Mississippi will join four other states in observation of a state holiday known as Confederate Memorial Day.
We also note that Mississippi observes Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday on the same day as Martin Luther King Day, as odd and inappropriate coupling as you are ever likely to encounter.
Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day were established by the Legislature, while Confederate Heritage Month is made each year by a proclamation of the Governor.
mississippi, alabama and arkansas. basically they paired it with robert e. lee s birthday with martin luther king, jr. s birthday. over and over and over again we celebrate black history month, but governor bryant has also declared april regularly during his tenure there as confederate heritage month. i wish we had more time. thank you guys so much. we re going to have to reassemble this panel and do it again. more after the break. my experience with usaa has been excellent.
oh, yes. he didn t just have a macaca moment but a macaca life. 58-year-old george felix allen has been elected congressman, governor, and u.s. senator from the commonwealth of virginia, flaunting racial attitudes and symbols from the 80s, 1880s. young allen started early. it was reported he had always been attracted to the notion of the old confederacy driving around in high school in california with a confederate flag on his car. he posed for his high school year book wearing a confederate pin on his collar. duke? no. hazard? most definitely. from then on throughout his legal and political career allen just kept on whistling dixie. like allen hung a noose from a tree in his law office. a noose. allen claimed it was more of a lasso and has nothing to do with lynching. he pictured the confederate stars and bars in his first campaign ad for governor of virginia. he signed a confederate heritage
it in new orleans this weekend because all of the republicans are there. if you talk to democrats around the country and you go to places where democrats should be enthusiastic, they are muted. they still very much like obama. they want him to succeed. i think they are muted right now. a lot of them are not that enthusiastic about that. i think give them time. they are less muted than they were before. okay. here s my concern of what we might see here. what we might see is so much anger this time around that democrats chances of winning the states they won last time, surprise states, north carolina, virginia, florida. they have a southern strategy. i was talking to dan rather this weekend. he thinks there s a southern strategy afoot in the republican party. they will begin their campaign for 2012 by locking up the solid south again on the right. first thing declare confederate heritage month. don t mention slavery when do you it. it s an effort to solidify the south as your