Legacy of the Line

[pynchonoid]

Look Away, Dixieland
Bush may have rebuked Lott for his praise of Strom
Thurmond, but the President recently revived a
practice of paying homage to an even greater champion
of the Confederacy
By MICHAEL WEISSKOPF AND KAREN TUMULTY

Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003

George W. Bush issued a stern rebuke to Senator Trent
Lott in December for his praise of the segregationist
1948 presidential bid of Strom Thurmond. But Bush has
revived a practice of paying homage to an even greater
champion of the Confederacy—Jefferson Davis. 

Last Memorial Day, for the second year in a row,
Bush's White House sent a floral wreath to the
Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.
Six days later, as the United Daughters of the
Confederacy celebrated Jefferson Davis' birthday
there, Washington chapter president Vicki Heilig
offered a "word of gratitude to George W. Bush" for
"honoring" the Old South's dead. [...] 

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-Doug







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