that he is sufficiently conservative for the right wing nut jobs of Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Speaking of lapel pins, what ever happened to the American flag pins that used to be required for all republicans? What is the small round pin that they all seem to use today?

With the Flag of Israel. Here's a pic, definitely a RRWNJ.

be debatable, but we really should do something about revisionist history in our own case.

the "Lost Cause" narrative took over in the South in the wake of Reconstruction and never really went away.

A comment about there being "good people on both sides" would have been a nice touch. I would have loved to have seen a leaked memo advising staff (Stephen Miller) to leave all Nazi paraphernalia at home.

these days

this same guy would probably say the Nazis were liberals and that the liberal democrats were the slaveowners.

sometimes history is just a little more complicated than 21st century American politics.

Knowing his type, the only thing he meant to apologize about was the "communist" part.

After the North won the war and set the slaves free, the South said: "FINE! We just won't educate anybody then!"

FOX news Republicans. Today’s GOP, where Abraham Lincoln is actually despised. These are Putin Party loyalists now.

....but now they want to attack Honest Abe directly?

A sovereign nation? I grew up in NC, partly, and there were some who didn't believe the defeat really happened. For them, the war was still going on, and that big army fort, Ft. Bragg, that was an occupying force.

I'm sure this guy thinks he's "patriotic".

The military should change the name to Fort Thomas, to honor a sourtherner during the civil war who was actually a patriot, fighting as a general for the Union.

If you didn't go to school in the deep south, you may not know the officially story: "We wuz all just peacably mindin our own bidness and then Fort Sumter suddenly surprised us by surrendering without any provocation whatsoever!"

For everyone else...

In late 1860 and early 1861, South Carolina and other southern states withdrew from the Union. They formed a new nation called the Confederate States of America.

But Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States, said the southern states did not have right to secede. And he said he would not accept the South’s demand to remove U.S. soldiers from South Carolina. The soldiers defended a base in Charleston Harbor called Fort Sumter.

So, Confederate leaders ordered an attack. Just before sunrise on April 12, 1861, a shell exploded above Fort Sumter. It was the first shot fired in the American Civil War.”

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/first-shot-civil-war-fort-sumter/2441338.html

“The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. Following the declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, its authorities demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. On December 26, Major Robert Anderson of the U.S. Army surreptitiously moved his small command from the vulnerable Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island to Fort Sumter, a substantial fortress built on an island controlling the entrance of Charleston Harbor. An attempt by U.S. President James Buchanan to reinforce and resupply Anderson using the unarmed merchant ship Star of the West failed when it was fired upon by shore batteries on January 9, 1861. South Carolina authorities then seized all Federal property in the Charleston area except for Fort Sumter.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter


“Jefferson Davis fired the shot that started the Civil War, not Abraham Lincoln.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/who...shot/.../AF1M5uHD_story.html

You're a republican, Pittman.

Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s.