Alabama state offices are closed Monday (the first in June)

[struggle4progress]

to celebrate Jefferson Davis' birthday; his actual birthday (3 June) is a legal holiday in Florida

He was born in Kentucky, raised in Mississippi and Louisiana, and was a congressman and senator for Mississippi before becoming president of the confederacy, which had its capitol in Alabama briefly until May 1861, when Davis moved it to Virginia

His connection to Florida seems even slighter: some of his belongings had been shipped there before he was finally captured in Georgia

[raging moderate]

1. Thanks for the warning.

And thank you for wading through all this Confederate history.

[madinmaryland]

2. Hmm. Celebration of the life of a traitor. That was the best spin I could put

on him. Otherwise, I hope that he is burning in hell. Fuck him and fuck the southerners who still revere him. Hopefully they also rot in hell along with him.

[struggle4progress]

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