Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to 'defend his homeland

[Yosemito]

Source: CNN

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith once promoted a measure that praised a Confederate soldier's effort to "defend his homeland" and pushed a revisionist view of the Civil War.
Hyde-Smith, a Republican, faces Mike Espy, a Democratic former congressman and agriculture secretary, in Tuesday's runoff in Mississippi -- the final Senate race to be decided in 2018. The measure, which was unearthed by CNN's KFile during a review of Hyde-Smith's legislative history, is the latest in a series of issues that have surfaced during her campaign, many of which have evoked Mississippi's dark history of racism and slavery.

As a state senator in 2007, Hyde-Smith cosponsored a resolution that honored then-92-year-old Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr, calling her "the last known living 'Real Daughter' of the Confederacy living in Mississippi." Pharr's father had been a Confederate soldier in Robert E. Lee's army in the Civil War.

The resolution refers to the Civil War as "The War Between the States." It says her father "fought to defend his homeland and contributed to the rebuilding of the country." It says that with "great pride," Mississippi lawmakers "join the Sons of Confederate Veterans" to honor Pharr.


Read more: https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/24/politics/cindy-hyde-smith-confederacy-mississippi-senate-race/

[bitterross]

1. These actions may be pros, not cons for her state

I realize most people in the nation would consider these actions to be deplorable since they all are really in support of slavery. That is not necessarily the case in the state in which she is running for office. Her actions may actually be net pluses for her.

We'll see on Tuesday.

[Brewh]

7. Hyde-Smith

Her actions may actually be net pluses for her.

You are absolutely correct,

[Retrograde]

2. If Pharr was 92 in 2007

then she would have been born ~1915. Assuming her father joined the Confederate army during the last year of the war at the age of 16 he would have been born ~1849, making him at least 65 when she was conceived. Not impossible, but a bit unusual. Wonder how old her mother was at the time.

All that aside, are people just starting to look at Hyde-Smith's record now?

[ProudLib72]

3. Didn't you catch the part about revisionist history?

Timelines don't matter to these people. The Civil War, henceforth to be known as "The War of Southern Stupidity", did not end in 1865. Appomattox was a diversion. Lee "surrendered" but the rest of the south did not. Oh, you can be damn sure that Cindy Hyde Smith truly believes the south will rise again.

[Yosemito]

4. Defending individual states was not constitutional

Comments please.

[Sneederbunk]

5. Nor did they do a very good job defending them.

[htuttle]

6. The Union was on the side of the Angels (in many of their minds)

The Confederates were fighting for a bunch of stuck up rich guys.

Differing amounts of motivation. ultimately.

[beachbum bob]

8. traitors are traitors....

and should be "honored" as such

[GWC58]

9. So Senator Hyde-Smith supports AND

approves of TREASON? Seems like it. Unfortunately Mississippi will send this despicable excuse for a human being back to DC. A true “deplorable.” “God, gays and guns” is her mantra. Hyde-Smith also said Mike Espy is “pro abortion.” Actually Senator I believe Sec. Espy is “pro choice.” There’s a difference. 🤔

[AZ8theist]

10. You forgot lynching.

She likes to watch lynching.

[GWC58]

11. Yes, that was forgetful of me.

[AZ8theist]

12. no worries...

sometimes it's hard to catalog all of the vile...

[GWC58]

14. You are

spot on about all the vile. 🤢🤮

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Wish these idiots would move into the 21st century