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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jefferson Davis was not a Virginian, so [b]why should Virginia celebrate him[/b] at all?  If a French nationalist waged armed war against the rest of Europe in the name of white supremacy and it resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands (basically what Jefferson Davis did versus the US) then I absolutely would call him a traitor and liken him to Hitler.[/quote]
Perhaps because Richmond was one of the capitols of the Confederate States of America and Davis was the President?  You know, kind of like D.C. celebrating it's past presidents.[/quote]

A defunct enemy country that only existed for a very bad cause for a brief but brutal 4 years and which has now been gone for 150 years.  Should we put up a monument honoring Al Baghdadi, leader of ISIS?  They are an enemy state as well.[/quote]
Is Al Baghdadi the president of the CSA?  Is the capitol of ISIS in Virginia?[/quote]

Regardless of who he is president of or where his capitol is, WHY DO WE HONOR ENEMIES?

Has it still not sunk in to you that the CSA was an ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES?[/quote]
What you don't seem to get is he has NEVER been an enemy of Virgina or any of the states part of the CSA.

Learn your history![/quote]

I have read my history and it says the CSA was an enemy of the United States, it says the CSA crumbled and died 150 years ago and for 150 years Virginia has been part of the United States.  You still seem to think the CSA is alive and well and refuse to accept history.[/quote]
You still haven't given any historical time frame when Davis was an enemy of Virgina.  Is that perhaps because he never was?[/quote]

Virginia AND Jefferson Davis were the enemy.   And they LOST, remember?  That means they no longer get to dictate who's the good guys and who's the bad guys.  That debate was settled in blood 150 years ago.  OVER.  DONE.  GET IT?[/quote]

Yes but Virginia is still a sovereign state that gets to name its roads after whoever it likes. "Get it?"[/quote]

The Commonwealth only retains naming rights over state roads.  Arlington County renamed "Old Jeff Davis Highway" as Long Bridge Drive, because that was a local road, controlled by Arlington County (per Virginia law)   Alexandria has the right to rename route from Jeff Davis Highway, because as a City it controls its own roads (except for access controlled highways) Arlington will of course need Virginia's permission to rename its section of route 1.  Which is why they are requesting such permission.   [/quote]

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