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union, mississippi s governor haley barbour called the controversy overblown. new virginia governor, bob mcdonald, designated april as confederate month, something his two predecessors had refrained from doing. this caused quite a stir, particularly because the governor did not even mention slavery in this proclamation. was that a mistake? well, i don t think so. my state legislature has made a legislatively enacted holiday, confederate memorial day. have done it for years under republican governors and democratic governors and for seven years as governor, i have issued a proclamation, because of what the legislature has done. my democratic predecessors did so as well. i don t know what you would say about slavery, but anybody that thinks that you have to explain to people that slavery s a bad thing, i think goes without saying. there s the sort of feeling that it s insensitive. but you clearly don t agree. to me, it s the sort of feeling that it s a nit, that it is not signif

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