Jefferson Davis was President of the CSA. If the book gets such a simple fact so wrong, I can only imagine what a botchup the remainder is.

And I didn't click the link as it sounded like more RW nuttiness and revisionist history. Tnx for the heads up.

sadly, the texas textbook committees have gone so far beyond insanity that satire is almost not possible (and I thought they were crazy back in the 70's!!)

Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 (where Lee's orders before Antietam were not found by Union troops)

Or at least what is considered satire by someone. Most follow the formula of:

1. Pick any random headline.
2. Stretch it in some ridiculous direction.
3. Post it as satire.
4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat (very frequently)

Unfortunately, fully blocking EEO does not prevent the posts from appearing on the Home page. They used to show up in Politics, but now have moved to good reads. My opinion is that they are not humorous, but should be in Humor.

The title is not what let me know this post was satire. I did not read the top of the post first. Instead I read the highlighted sections first. After reading those section I was set to post a reply asking someone to tell me the original post was satire. I knew some of the information was wrong. However, I thought someone it Texas might be trying to pass that misinformation off as fact. I realized the original post was satire when I went back to read the beginning of the post and saw the satire warning.

I am very happy the original post is satire. The sad part is that with the way things are going anyone could have believed it was true. I guess someone could say it is shocking that the South has not tried something like that already.