"Black people may have started Memorial Day. Whites erased it from history."

[deurbano]

3. My mother was a member of the United Daughter's of the Confederacy, and

she used to say "The South shall rise again," after meetings in Bakersfield, CA in the 1960s. (Bakersfield was kind of like Mississippi West.) My family had moved there from the Mississippi Delta, where my father had been a member of the White Citizens' Council. Both parents became Republicans after they decided JFK and the Dems were too supportive of civil rights.

My 92-year-old mother went to My Kev's birthday in DC in January because she's known him his whole life... and she's also still a rightwing fanatic. (Like all Republicans, now.)

And yes, we just have to keep on defeating them, like "whack-a-mole"! (They are relentless.)