Greg Bluestein
April 25, 2016

The fourth Monday in April has for decades been known in Georgia as Confederate Memorial Day. But this year, the day goes by the much more neutral title: “State Holiday.”

Most state employees will still take Monday off, but they will no longer officially be memorializing the South’s casualties ... Gov. Nathan Deal last year struck Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee’s birthday from the state’s official holiday calendar, replacing them with the less controversial nomenclature.

Deal’s decision to quietly change the names came amid increased scrutiny of Georgia’s embrace of Confederate symbols ...

State-issued license plates featuring the Rebel emblem have been altered, though only slightly. Statues and paintings of Confederate leaders in the statehouse are facing fresh criticism. And the leaders of Stone Mountain have agreed to build a memorial for black soldiers near the giant paean to the Confederate war dead ...

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/04/25/why-today-is-no-longer-confederate-memorial-day-in-georgia/

something like a third of all Georgians are black. The 2010 census reported it as over 30%, but there has been an ongoing trend in the south of previous black residents and descendants of previous black residents "returning" for cultural reasons, facilitated by loss of jobs in other states. So after over 6 years, the number is undoubtedly higher.

I just looked and 25% of all Alabamans are black. Past time for them to flex their muscles.

Surrender Monkey Day.

And I'm a son of the South.

This place seems to be in a "who can be dumber" mode politically. The pols pitch to the lowest common denominator but can't see that they are the lowest common denominator.

Good way to "save money" and screw the idiots who keep electing assholes "because they defend our freeeedumb!!!".