The South shall Rise again

Everyone in Florida calls it cape Canaveral

Hard to change the name of shit people use all the time—like a building? Fine, most people won't work in that building for their whole lives, so you'll constantly have a refresh of people, and about every few years or so, you'll have a nearly complete reset of anybody who works in that area.

But a geographic area—people live there their whole lives, so if you suddenly rename Los Angeles to AlexJonesville, you're not going to get much traction.

It's not the first time something like this has happened.

In 1852, the Oregon Territory legislature formed King County around Seattle, in what would later be Washingon state. It was named after the newly elected Vice President William R. King, who also served as Minister to France and as a senator from Alabama.

As a wealthy southern plantation owner in the 19th century, he of course owned slaves.

In 1986, King County Council got the ick from Mr King, and decided to break it off. They passed a motion to rename the county. Sort of.

It would remain known as "King County", but it would instead be named after Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

!historychads

>Roland L. Bragg

>Bragg owned and operated a body shop and was the owner of Nobleboro Building Movers for 25 years. After retiring in 1984, he ran a portable sawmill business.

It's one of the largest military bases in the US and it's been fort Bragg for 100 years. I guarantee you no one called it anything other than Bragg since the name change unless they were forced to. Changing names of places is fricking stupid. Glad it's back to its original name.

Senate passed a law, that US bases can't be named after Confederates. So they had to get around it.

One time chuds want everyone to know about the USS Liberty incident, next time they cheer when a reference to it was named to something else. Make it make sense chuds...

can't wait to see the change

Lol imagine caring

If you want loyal to bitter end. Edmund Ruffin

In the three decades before the American Civil War he published polemics in support of states' rights and the protection of chattel slavery, earning notoriety as one of the so-called Fire-Eaters. Ruffin was present at the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 and fired one cannon shot at the fort. This gave rise to the legend that Ruffin fired the first shot of the Civil War. Ruffin did enlist as a Confederate soldier despite his advanced age. When the war ended in defeat in 1865, he committed suicide rather than accept what he called "Yankee rule."

Or States Rights Gist becouse it would be funny

States Rights Gist (September 3, 1831 – November 30, 1864) was a lawyer and militia general in South Carolina, and later a Confederate Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He gained prominence during the war but was killed at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. Gist was named after the Southern states' rights doctrine of nullification, reflecting the political beliefs of his father, Nathaniel Gist, a follower of John C. Calhoun.

Or James H. Hammond to own the libs

James Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 – November 13, 1864) was an American attorney, politician, and planter. He served as a United States representative from 1835 to 1836, the 60th Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1844, and a United States senator from 1857 to 1860. An enslaver, Hammond was one of the most ardent supporters of slavery in the years before the American Civil War

Acquiring property through marriage, Hammond ultimately owned 22 square miles, several plantations and houses, and enslaved more than 300 people.[1][2] Through his wife's family, he was a brother-in-law of Wade Hampton II and uncle to his children, including Wade Hampton III. When the senior Hampton learned that Hammond had r*ped his four Hampton nieces as teenagers, he made the scandal public. The publicizing of his crimes nearly derailed Hammond's career, but he later was elected to the United States Senate.

Hammond rejected any government regulation of slavery, even in wartime. When the South Carolina government requisitioned 16 of the people Hammond enslaved to improve fortifications for Charleston, he refused, calling it "wrong every way and odious." Also, when a Confederate army officer stopped by to requisition some grain, Hammond tore up the requisition order, tossed it out a window, and wrote about it, that it compensated him too little and that it was like "branding on my forehead: 'Slave'".

He also r*ped one of his slaves. That slave later on had child. Possibly his child. Eventually he ended up raping that girl.

we do be raping

If they have any sense, they'll keep the old signs in storage and we can swap them every time we change administrations.

So much winning

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