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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious, what do you people personally have against Jefferson Davis?[/quote]

Personally? Nothing. I just don't think we should name roads after the leaders of U.S. enemies. Do you?
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Well, he was more things than just an enemy of the US.  He was also a US representative, senator, and US Secretary of War.  I would also say that a civil war or uprising is much different than a war with a foreign country.  Given your rule of thumb the US shouldn't have anything named after any Indian, any Confederate, any British, any French, any German, any Russian, any Spanish, any Mexican, etc.

Basically nothing named after anyone or any area involved with these US enemies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States

Is that what your saying?[/quote]

Not the PP that you are responding to, but having things merely named after notable Germans is very different from having things named after people who specifically waged war against you and who were directly responsible for killing thousands of Americans.  I have no problem with naming something in the US after notable Germans like Albert Einstein or JS Bach or Gutenberg, but I would certainly have a huge issue with naming something in the US after Nazis like Hitler or Eichmann or Goehring.

As for what Jefferson Davis did prior to the Civil War, all that became deeply tarnished when he decided to command people to take up arms to attack the citizens of the United States.  As for it being "different" to be at war with a foreign country, consider that during the Civil War, the states had already seceded and the CSA was in fact a foreign country and no longer part of the United States.  [/quote]

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