By Adam Ganucheau
Apr 26, 2021 4:58 PM
Rep. Robert Johnson, the minority leader in the Mississippi House of Representatives whose measured and respectful demeanor has brought recent policy success to Democrats in a ruby red state, is disgusted.
He’s disgusted that months after lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag after 126 years, Mississippi is once again celebrating Confederate Memorial Day.
He’s disgusted that Mississippi is once again garnering a negative image on front pages and in news broadcasts across the nation because some prominent leaders continue to embrace the ugliest parts of the state’s history.
Confederate Memorial Day remains legal holiday in Florida, other southern states
Bill to remove holiday designation not likely to pass this year
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The graves Confederate soldiers at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park April 7, 2015 in Appomattox, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – There are no major events planned around it these days, but April 26 continues to be Confederate Memorial Day a state-sanctioned holiday in Florida. The birthdays for Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee also remain legal holidays in Florida.
Five states have kept Confederate Memorial Day a legal holiday, although not all states set the date as the last Monday of April.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. State offices were closed Monday in Alabama and Mississippi for Confederate Memorial Day, which a watchdog group used to call for the removal of additional monuments to the Confederacy.
The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center, in a statement, said Confederate symbols erected by Southern heritage groups were used by white supremacists “as tools of racial terror and said 170 were removed across the nation last year. We recognize that removing these symbols is only the first step. We must work for racial justice and an honest reckoning with our country’s past and present. That cannot be accomplished by removing a memorial or renaming a school, but it is a necessary step,” said the statement.
Billy Graham once counseled: âthe deeper issue for you isnât economic but spiritual.â
On the economic side, prior to the Civil War, tariffs on imports into southern ports, notably Charleston, South Carolina, provided the majority of the revenue for the U.S. Federal Government.
A Federal income tax did not exist yet.
Tariff taxes on foreign made goods caused them to be more expensive, causing people to buy domestically produced goods, mostly manufactured in Northern factories.
The Tariff taxes that helped the North hurt the South, as the South had few factories to protect.
Economically, the South was dependent on agriculture, primarily rice and cotton.