‘Lost Cause’ not lost
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is not lost.
It has been resurrected by a pro-Confederate president from Queens aided by a Supreme Court’s efforts to return the South to the 1960s. John Roberts has finally succeeded in Louisiana v. Callais in eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, precedent be damned.
National parks, memorials and museums at the administration’s behest are rewriting history to erase slavery and Jim Crow. The United Daughters of the Confederacy monument to Confederate dead was removed at a cost of $3 million and is now being reinstalled at a cost of $10 million in Arlington Cemetery. Military bases named after Confederate generals are now being named and renamed. Military commanders are being denied promotion and/or dismissed because of race or sex as if in wartime military experience doesn’t matter.
Tennessee has 7 million citizens — 1.5 million are Black, half of those in Memphis, so there are no federal elected officials in Tennessee who look like 20% of the population … the Jim Crow South. Don’t think the Voting Rights Act was needed? Just look at the reflex response of the Tennessee Legislature after the Supreme Court gutted it.