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Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA century and a half after the opening shots of the U.S. Civil War, nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy. That's according to a new CNN poll released on the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, when Union soldiers raised a U.S. flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the opening shots of the war rang out. The poll's results reveal that the war that divided the nation for four years still divides American public opinion today. In the South, 38 percent of respondents said they sympathize with the Confederacy, which lost the bloody war. ...
Secessionist Gala Opens Old Civil War Wounds
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA "Secession Ball" marking the 150th anniversary of the moment South Carolina chose to secede from the United States drew protesters along with ballroom dancers in the latest episode of America's festering conflict over race and the history of the Civil War. About 300 South Carolinians, the vast majority of them white, gathered in hoop skirts and white gloves in Charleston where the ball took place Monday evening. The group, which included two state legislators, re-enacted the 1860 secession convention and sang "Dixie." They insisted that the event was meant to celebrate their ancestors, not ...
Dance, Protests Mark 150 Years Since SC Left US
By not in system - AOL NewsCHARLESTON, S.C. (Dec. 20) - The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a "Secession Ball," commemorating South Carolina's decision exactly 150 years ago to secede from the United States of America. As blacks and whites gathered in the twilight with electric candles and signs for an NAACP protest, a predominantly white group of men in old-fashioned tuxedos and women in long-flowing dresses and gloves stopped to watch and take pictures before going into the Charleston auditorium where the ball was taking place. Bruce Smith, ...
Civil War Dolls X-Rayed for Signs of Smuggling
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- Civil War-era dolls are being X-rayed in Virginia for clues as to whether their hollow heads were used to smuggle medicines across Union blockades to ailing Confederate soldiers. The two 150-year-old dolls, named Nina and Lucy Ann, have been preserved at the Museum of the Confederacy in the former Confederate capital, Richmond. On Wednesday, conservationists took them across the street to nearby VCU Medical Center for X-rays to determine the inner dimensions of their heads, and whether they could have once been packed with quinine or morphine, TV station KTHV 11 ...
Meet the New Ole Miss Mascot: Still a Rebel, More Bear-ish
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- What qualities best befit a Rebel? The University of Mississippi announced today that it had selected a successor mascot to "Colonel Reb," the confederate-identified caricature of Southern glory (Dixie) that had cheered on the school's sports teams since 1979, The Associated Press reported. University of Mississippi Student Mascot Selection Committee / AP | Doug Pensinger, Getty Images The University of Mississippi has changes its mascot from Colonel Rebel, right, to Rebel Black Bear. In Reb's place comes an entirely new brand of rebel, and one with even more facial hair: ...
SC State Senate Majority Leader Glenn McConnell's Confederate Obsession
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- It comes as no surprise to South Carolina natives that state Senate Majority Leader Glenn McConnell likes to play dress-up. On Tuesday, Will Folks, former spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford and self-described cuckolder of GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley's husband, posted pictures to his political website of McConnell attending a party dressed as a Confederate general. In the pictures, he's surrounded by various African-Americans dressed as slaves. This was not some secret party. It was last weekend's annual board of directors meeting of the National Federation of ...
McDonnell's Virginia Proclamation a Skirmish in Ongoing Un-Civil War
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCall it the battle of Richmond. Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia issues a proclamation for Confederate History Month in the commonwealth, leaving out any mention of the buying and selling of human beings and the brutal decades of Jim Crow that followed. After taking heat for the omission, he adds a paragraph, and no one is happy -- not the Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose whispers in his ear prompted the original version, nor the descendants of those once defined as three-fifths of a person, who have been fighting to reclaim their entire selves ever since. It carried me back, all right, to ...
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