[NJ_gent]

"btw...not sure if it's been noted but Maryville while very bucolic is also arguably one of the more liberal hamlets in the state."

It's not surprising that people with an ideology which holds that the Federal government is the ultimate and supreme authority would want to stamp out any reference to the Confederacy. After all, allowing people to learn about a group of states that banded together and fought a war with the Federal government (and almost won) might actually give people enough hope to stand up to Federal powergrabbing.

Can't have that, now can we...

[wardaddy]

btw...i agree with your tagline

[Colonel Kangaroo]

It's not surprising that people with an ideology which holds that the Federal government is the ultimate and supreme authority would want to stamp out any reference to the Confederacy. After all, allowing people to learn about a group of states that banded together and fought a war with the Federal government (and almost won) might actually give people enough hope to stand up to Federal powergrabbing.

I must disagree with the representation of the Confederacy as the ideal of anti-Federal liberty for the people. The Confederate government was just as much of a heavy-handed national government in their sphere as was Washington. For the most part the secessionists did not object to a strong federal entity. They just wanted one that they could control and use to safeguard the future of the institution of slavery and the economic interests of the Dixie oligarchy.