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In reply to the discussion: Do you support renaming roads/schools/bridges to eliminate references to Confederate Leaders? [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)13. Perhaps, but then we're stuck at...
the question of how to define a person-- by the best part of his life, the worst part of his life, or trying to combine the two.
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Do you support renaming roads/schools/bridges to eliminate references to Confederate Leaders? [View all]
el_bryanto
Jun 2015
OP
I am almost as mad when I see something named after that complete disaster, Reagan
randys1
Jun 2015
#9
Why would you be "in the middle" on this issue? Seems pretty straight forward to me
randys1
Jun 2015
#10
Withhold Federal funding. Many states in the South depend on the Feds for highway funds.
ncjustice80
Jun 2015
#30
Most post war era were put up as a protest against civil rights and have nothing to do with the war
Johonny
Jun 2015
#21
If the alternative is naming something else after St. Reagan, it's a tough call. nt
Buns_of_Fire
Jun 2015
#5
I'm neutral. This is no more offensive to me than naming streets and cities after saints. I don't
virgogal
Jun 2015
#7
How about U.S. military installations named after Confederate military leaders?
Adrahil
Jun 2015
#19