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re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds
Posted on 6/26/15 at 10:02 pm to JustGetItRight
Posted on 6/26/15 at 10:02 pm to JustGetItRight
Well, I visited not long before I was discharged from the Army in '94. So I must have just missed it.
I'm baffled why Gov. Wallace wanted a naval ensign flapping in the breeze on top of landlocked Montgomery. Was he a Navy man, by any chance? Of course, I realize this is Wallace we're talking about here, so anything is possible.
I'm baffled why Gov. Wallace wanted a naval ensign flapping in the breeze on top of landlocked Montgomery. Was he a Navy man, by any chance? Of course, I realize this is Wallace we're talking about here, so anything is possible.
This post was edited on 6/26/15 at 10:05 pm
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Posted on 6/26/15 at 10:04 pm to PikeBishop
Have you heard of the Alabama River?
Posted on 6/26/15 at 10:41 pm to PikeBishop
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I'm baffled why Gov. Wallace wanted a naval ensign flapping in the breeze on top of landlocked Montgomery. Was he a Navy man, by any chance?
Because it's the flag that Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats had adopted as a symbol of their fight against integration.
A year later, Wallace gained infamy for his stand in the schoolhouse door.
Eighteen years after that, he was elected to a fourth non-consecutive term as governor (fifth, if you count his wife's term)and carried something like 40% of the black vote.
The guy would say anything to get votes, and it worked.
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