Daily Kos: Sen. Kennedy, stripping traitors' names off military bases unfairly picks on the South

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The northern states didn't erect statues of Confederate generals because

those states were part of and fought for the actual United States. That's why those statues are only in the southern states. Duh.

Here in Minnesota, where there are no statues of Confederate generals, a large Minneapolis lake named after pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun, was recently re-named Bde Maka Ska, its original Dakota name. (The reason it was named Lake Calhoun in the first place was because, as Secretary of War and long before he went full-on slavery promoter, Calhoun sent the Army to survey the area and authorized the construction of Fort Snelling, one of the largest and earliest outposts in the state.) This was also extremely controversial, but mostly because the white folks in the expensive houses on the west side of the lake don't care for all that Native American stuff, didn't know how to pronounce Bde Maka Ska, and couldn't be bothered to learn.