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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall praised the Supreme Court decision, calling it “a victory for the Alabama law which seeks to protect historical monuments.”
“The city of Birmingham acted unlawfully when it erected barriers to obstruct the view of the 114-year-old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Linn Park,” Marshall said in a statement.
The 2017 Alabama Memorial Preservation Act prohibits relocating, removing, altering or renaming public buildings, streets and memorials that have been standing for more than 40 years. The legislation doesn’t specifically mention Confederate monuments, but it was enacted as some Southern states and cities began removing monuments and emblems of the Confederacy.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo ruled in January in favor of the city, which is more than 70% black. Striking down the law, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo said it was indisputable that most citizens are “repulsed” by the memorial.
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This is a very interesting case because a basic tenet of modern conservatism is to give localities more control of such things as monuments or, say, environmental regulations, or parks or schools, and not impose things from faraway big state or federal gummints.
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 1:08pm
P.S. A flip side argument right on the top of the Dagblog home page: individual counties in VA getting to decide what gun laws they will follow.
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 1:26pm
Alabama has only been a solid red state for nine of the last 154 years and it's great that they want to preserve their true history. All of those Civil War monuments were built for and by Alabama democrats the party that now wants that historical fact erased.
My Grandfather, who was born in a Civil War POW camp, and my Dad were Alabama Republicans during an era when it was difficult even dangerous to be a Southern Republican. My grandfather told my Dad he viewed the Democrats' terrorist militia, the KKK, as White Trash.
Another little known fact is that more White Southern Republicans were disenfranchised by the democrat's Jim Crow laws than their fellow Black Republicans of that era.
All of these Civil War monuments should have an additional plaque added that states all were built to honor slave owning democrats because no Republican ever owned a slave.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 5:27pm
The Democrats lost the "South" when they backed Civil Rights. The "Southern Strategy" employed by the Republican Party took as much advantage of that change as possible. It has pretty much played out as LBJ said it would.
If you are trying to own some vestige of the Republican past while profiting from their present policies, then you are either really ignorant or just hoping nobody knows what happened back then.
by moat on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 6:45pm
Moat, parroting ignorant Lib propaganda may have fooled people before the interweb, I believed it, but the facts and data are easy to find today.Hiding from the facts of history is the only way the Left can continue to strut around acting superior while looking like fools.
The political map of the South today shows 2 Solid Red states Ala. and Tenn. with 3 further west leaning Republican and the rest including Tx. competitive. If there was a Southern Strategy it failed miserably, Wallace won the 5 states of the Deep South in '68 and Tx. was deep blue Only one of the 100+ Dixiecrats fell prey to the devious Southern Strategy and the rest lived and died loyal racist democrats.
No one can deny that racial relations and attitudes have improved dramatically over the last 50 years in the South and that everyone has benefited from this positive change. There is a direct correlation between the reduction in racism in the South and the growth of the Republican Party The growth of Conservative ideas and policies in the South helped produce the huge economic growth over those 50 years that reversed the migration from the stagnant economies my family left behind in 1950.
My brother left a good career in the auto industry in Michigan to move his family to Georgia in the New South where opportunity waited. He and his two sons all became millionaires through hard work and the growth of prosperity generated by investment in the economies of the New South.
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 2:02pm
The states with the most poverty in the country are in the South, most led by Republicans. Jindal was so bad that Louisiana elected a Democratic Governor twice. Brownbeck destroyed the economy of Kansas. Even Republicans endorsed the Democratic candidate to be Governor of Kansas. Michigan and Wisconson shed themselves of Repiblican Governors.
You are truly comical. I don't know if you are just doing parody, but you do provide a great deal of humor.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 4:36pm
Factory millionaires, eh Peter?
A bunch of foreign & non-union northern companies building cars - that's your secret to make millions?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 4:48pm
My observation was that the Democratic Party's embrace of the Civil Rights Movement cost them politically in the South. The Republicans gained prominence by protecting the status quo as much as possible against the call for equality of law and conditions for participation in a diverse society.
Your analysis avoids that dynamic. It is a pretty simple observation of uncontested history. The simplicity makes your statement very curious: "There is a direct correlation between the reduction in racism in the South and the growth of the Republican Party." As the one who would disillusion Liberals, you will have to tell the glorious narrative of the Republicans who fought to integrate schools and provide equal opportunities for housing and jobs in the South.
by moat on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 5:24pm
and an especially ridiculous glorious narrative it is, too. Who the hell seriously thinks either party has a straight unchanging ideological history over 150 yrs.?
by artappraiser on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 8:28pm
One of the founders of the Republican party was a slaveowner. The largest slaveowner in Delaware was a Republican.
The party now defending the Confederate statues are Republicans
The party that made sure that the pastor of Mother Emanuel was eulogized under a Confederate flag were Republicans.
Stephen Miller would easily fit in the ranks of the KKK.
Regarding back in the day Klan members
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/15/how-social-media-spread-a-historical-lie/
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 8:28pm
As the expression goes, it was a bipartisan effort.
by moat on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 8:32pm
The bipartisan nature of the Klan is not surprising. What is surprising is Peter's lack of knowledge on a host of subjects.
Even if you know nothing about the subject, you know that a statement like there were no Republican slaveowners was going to easily be proven wrong.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 9:50pm
What does an Eisenhower Republican have to do with a Trumpian "nasty woman" Republican? McCarthy was at least trying to root out Russian influence, nasty as he was - Trump's abetting it and sneaking it through in every corner of government. Eisenhower and Nixon worked against Soviet incursion in Vietnam and Iran and Chile, from Eisenhower to Reagan Republicans strengthened Europe's and Japan's defense - Trump is weakening them as quick as he can, while ignoring Russia's alarming growing cyberattacks.
You can brag about your great-granddad being a cop, but if you support a rapist and an embezzler and an apologist for murderers, your police heritage ain't shit, so cut the nostalgia crap. The GOP is what it is today - totally lost its way on defense, security, fiscal responsibility & balanced budgets, real support for business aside from huge kickbacks, working within legal precedent, and just upholding and managing the basic gears of government. It's a total corrupt shitshow, winging it as they go.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 4:33am
You father's White trash Democrats are now White trash Republicans. David Duke and Richard Spencer praise Trump. Trump finds good people among Nazis. Trump hired white supremacists like Bannon and Miller. The racial roles of the parties changed. Republicans kicked Mia Love and Will Hurd out of office.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 8:46am