But I am for taxing the "Daughters of the Confederacy" and for designating them as a hate group - both of which should have happened decades ago already.

This is getting out of hand. It's devolving into anarchy, criminal acts, and failing to use the law. The same complaints made against those protesting the removals with violence.

old ladies who clean up grave sites, collect artifacts, and erect statues to fallen villains is now a hate group? Not that such a thing exists under law, but still....

"I offer to thee my mint julep, my peach cobbler, and my gossip magazines, o, mighteous one!"



(with apologies to the late, great Rue McClanahan)

Look away, Dixie Land.

The next thing you'd know, the whole country would be wearing those nasty little whaht gloves, and looking like dragons, drinking way too many mint juleps, eating lots and lots of peach cobbler, as mentioned above, and all feeling even more superior than is possible to imagine.

Looks like too much supremacy can cause your face to crack as your mouth becomes a jagged slash.

I couldn't post that without hearing it in Blanche Deveraux's voice.

I used to watch the Golden Girls from time to time as a kid with my retired neighbors (the sweetest people from Texas). Blanche and Sophia were a hoot.

There is no group named "Loyal Women of the South"

And here I was at the Hallmark store looking for the "Congratulations on Supporting Your Father on His Treasonous Uprising for Keeping Human Beings as Pets" card. A statue was the way to go...

I lived in Mississippi for some years. Almost everyone who's anyone belongs to a "heritage" society - a term which always refers to the Antebellum (slavery) era. Suffice it to say, many of the members are also part of the CCC - the re-branded KKK.

To be fair, many moderate whites do object - but they know to keep their objections to a minimum, lest their businesses suffer a boycott or they get fired for no apparent reason.

On a lighter note - a belated welcome to DU, jvill. Don't be a stranger, now!

should pay if they want preserve that monument. Monuments to traitors and haters do not belong on public property.

for the better part of two years. My brother stil lives there, on Ward Parkway. I've driven by this piece of rock numerous times. Never stopped to see what it was. The fact that an organization named "United Daughters of the Confederacy" existed in 1934 and had the money to put this up tells you all you need to know. I doubt there are any black faces in those "women of the Old South" they venerate. This was a nice history lesson. Thanks

Some other racist town might decide to use this statue in the future.