“These examples are true as far as they go, but both accounts given by Ojanuga selectively omit major pieces of information that, once known, completely deflate the case…”. As always.

RT @aedanusburke: Winnsboro South Carolina has a town clock that has been in operation since 1837.

Looking back you can see this was a clever, strategic Dem move. GOP included the question in ‘94 (voters support flag); Beasley surprises everyone and advocates removal in ‘96; same GOP voters turn on GOP and Dem Hodges is elected in ‘98. Flag down 2000. ✅

Many SC voters had asked for a statewide referendum around this time, giving everyone, regardless of party, a voice on the matter. They wouldn’t get it. In fact state Democrats blocked it. See left column: “History of the battle flag” with the First National flag image used.

In 1994, state GOP included a ballot question (non-binding referendum) concerning the flag. Approximately 76% of SC voters participating in the GOP primary supported keeping the flag. State Democrats did not include the question on their primary ballots that year.

I mean, it’s a viable and shrewd political strategy whether your goal is to connect a killer with a certain symbol OR disconnect a killer from a certain symbol. Have to say, that’s a profitable strategy.

This is quite an overt admission, isn’t it? . Compare and contrast to the suppression of the Nashville killer’s views which are still largely unknown. There was no such media reluctance in 2015. “To apply pressure, they went to the media.”

RT @Jeff_Davis1808: Correct. The great Northern historians held the North to their original war aims. Pointing out the inconsistencies and….

RT @nolacampanella: Mark Twain writing in 1882 of how often Americans, north and south, spoke about the Civil War.

RT @aedanusburke: Henry Laurens is one of South Carolina’s most famous patriots and this biography by David Duncan Wallace is considered on….

RT @Jeff_Davis1808: Has patriotism ceased to be a virtue, and is narrow sectionalism no longer to be counted a crime?. So long as we prese….

RT @Jeff_Davis1808: for the whole country, and lived for mankind, we cannot sink to the petty strife which would sap the foundations, and d….

“By establishing an armed force to execute the laws at the point of the bayonet — a government of all others the most to be dreaded.”. Brutus I (October 1787).

“If respect is to be paid to the opinion of the greatest and wisest men who have ever thought or wrote on the science of government, we shall be constrained to conclude, that a free republic cannot succeed over a country of such immense extent,”. Brutus I (October 1787).

“The question then will be, whether a government thus constituted, and founded on such principles, is practicable, and can be exercised over the whole United States, reduced into one state?”. Brutus I (October 1787).

“In a republic, the manners, sentiments, and interests of the people should be similar. If this be not the case, there will be a constant clashing of opinions; and the representatives of one part will be continually striving against those of the other.”. ~ Brutus I (1787).

RT @jjfThompson: From the republican point of view, the larger the polity, the greater the moral weight to the right of secession. This exp….

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RT @Jeff_Davis1808: The incredible speech by Sickles, where he says secession is constitutional, can be found in the Congressional Globe on….

RT @jjfThompson: James Madison declared long after the ratification of the Constitution, ."Our governmental system is established by a comp….