School board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names

Reuters ^ | 05 10 2024 | Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte

[yesthatjallen]

The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the U.S. to take such an action.

By a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County board overturned its 2020 decision that stripped a public high school and elementary school of their original names honoring three military leaders of the pro-slavery South in the Civil War.

Under the board's action, Mountain View High School will again become known as Stonewall Jackson High, while Honey Run Elementary School will revert to the name Ashby Lee Elementary.

The names belong to some of the most well-known military leaders of the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee was commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate infantry general, and Turner Ashby was a rebel cavalry commander. All of them were Virginians.

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[cowboyusa]

Ok, I put you down ad agreeing wi5h the Marxists and Democrats then. Guess you will be voting for Biden, since he will keep big government going? Why are even on this forum?

[cowboyusa]

I’m concerned about NOW. We are in a fight for our Republic. THE UNITED STATES. ANY big government aids the cause of the left.

[FLT-bird]

South Carolina WAS ALWAYS the troublemak8ng State from the very begining. VA got pulled along, so did TX.

No it wasn't. That's ridiculous. The real troublemaking state has always been Massachusetts. Mass-Holes are insufferable. They always have been.

[FLT-bird]

Ok, I put you down ad agreeing wi5h the Marxists and Democrats then. Guess you will be voting for Biden, since he will keep big government going? Why are even on this forum?

I don't agree with big government but if you're gonna have it, then hell yes my region which was a net donor for a century and a half should be a net recipient now.

[FLT-bird]

I’m concerned about NOW. We are in a fight for our Republic. THE UNITED STATES. ANY big government aids the cause of the left.

I'd be more than happy to let the Acela Corridor and the Left Coast go.

[cowboyusa]

No, none.

[FLT-bird]

Wilson may have been born in I think Virginia but his adult life was all yankee You own him

Yep. Wilson was the president of Princeton and was the governor of New Jersey. He spent his entire adult life up North. He was a Yankee.

[cowboyusa]

We are 2 intertwined now for States to leave. Now, some cities have in effect Secced3d from the US.

[FLT-bird]

We are 2 intertwined now for States to leave. Now, some cities have in effect Secced3d from the US.

We could definitely arrange for a reasonable separation agreement if a state wanted to leave.

[cowboyusa]

The South now pays more for Big Government than the Blue States do. It is the Southand Midwest plus Westen Stayes that are the most free market.

[cowboyusa]

NAot at this point. Red States have blue Cities. Blue States have vast red areas. If the second Civil War ever goes hot, it will make the first one look like a picnic. And I sadly don’t see how it can be avoided. THE LEFT WILL NOT LEAVE US ALONE, AND WE CAN NOT CO- EXIST WITH THEM.

[cowboyusa]

MA and SC wete equaly blamed as the biggest troublemaking States after the 1st Civil War.

[FLT-bird]

The South now pays more for Big Government than the Blue States do. It is the Southand Midwest plus Westen Stayes that are the most free market.

Actually the Southern states are net recipients. They get more in federal spending than they send off in taxes. Democrats and Leftists will be more than happy to tell you this.

[FLT-bird]

NAot at this point. Red States have blue Cities. Blue States have vast red areas. If the second Civil War ever goes hot, it will make the first one look like a picnic. And I sadly don’t see how it can be avoided. THE LEFT WILL NOT LEAVE US ALONE, AND WE CAN NOT CO- EXIST WITH THEM.

Oh I definitely think we could separate peacefully if we wanted to. Your last sentence is exactly why I favor peaceful secession. The alternative is a very bloody war.

[FLT-bird]

MA and SC wete equaly blamed as the biggest troublemaking States after the 1st Civil War.

Its always been Massachusetts. They started it in 1775. They did all they could to egg it on in the 1840s and 50s. They're the same complete A-holes now.

[cowboyusa]

The left want CONTROL and they want YOU;DEAD. You can’t negotiate with people like that. Theumy want ALL of America to be leftist.

[cowboyusa]

They started the Revolution righteously.
It is interesting you say that, because Cooldidge was from MA. The Catholics in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s in MA. We’re VERY Anti- Communist. Then MA went Cockeyed, starting with McGovern, to the point that it is now, along with Vermont, one of the most leftist States in the Union.

[cowboyusa]

I know, thier is still far too much rhinoismn the South. Judas Johnson is from LA.

[Reily]

Your view of the American Indian at least as how you expressed it is still naive. They were a neolithic people who surprisingly enough behaved neolithically. They had no special corner of the market on morality in how they interacted with peoples outside of their particular ‘people’. If in certain competition with others firm friendship was called for, they did that. If continuous war and even genocide they did that. If conditions changed and a problem developed with the firm friendship case. The solution was such that massacre and genocide solved the problem they did that! In short, they behaved just like any other group of humans did in those situations. Archaeology of neolithic Europe, Asia and Africa show many examples. In the case of North\South America they ran into competitors who were somewhat more advanced technologically. More importantly thanks to the contiguous Eurasian landmass Europeans had a better tested immune system. That lessor immune system the natives here had due to their splendid isolation all of a sudden that isolation wasn't so splendid. Accidental biowarfare was truly how the West was won from sea to shining sea. It wouldn't have mattered when we palefaces had arrived blowing kisses and throwing skittles the result would have been the same. Of course, it's more socially & politically popular to wallow in self-guilt about being on the surviving side. It had to be done immorally right? We shouldn't be here!

[FLT-bird]

The left want CONTROL and they want YOU;DEAD. You can’t negotiate with people like that. Theumy want ALL of America to be leftist.

they can be scared enough by the prospect that we can kill them too....or that we can cause them enough harm that they'd be much better off just separating rather than trying to impose their rule on us.