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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ridiculous.  Whsy shall we change Washington DC and Washington state to next? Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument names to be changed next?  Washington and Let University, UVA founded by Jefferson, Library of Congress.  Some of you have gone from the Ridiculous to the sublime[/quote]

Anyone who tries to defend Jeff Davis with the stupid faulty analogy to Washington or Jefferson is obviously an idiot. [/quote]
Actually if you compare Washington and Davis they had similar backgrounds.  The major difference being one was on the winning side of war and the other was not.[/quote]

Lol yup. If the revolutionaries had lost the war and we are still part of the British commonwealth we'd probably treat Washington like Guy Fawks. You'd have libs yelling on these forums that he was a slave owning racist that only inbreds want to remember. [/quote]

In other words, if we were patriotic British, we would not like George Washington.

Well guess what?  We are patriotic AMERICANS.  It's not just a matter of winning or losing.  it is a matter of which country we belong to, who were the people who defended us, and who were the people who went to war with us.  How can you be so thick as to not understand it.

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Virginians are Virginians in addition to being Americans. They can be proud if both their national and state history. Their state history includes NOT being part of the Union during the civil war. [/quote]

A significant number of Virginians (even excluding West Virginia, and black Virginians) supported and fought for the Union. Some did so in the Loudoun Rangers, a pro union partisan group, and some did so by joining regiments raised in Maryland.

Of course many black Virginians fought for the Union.

It is to be presumed that none of these Virginians recognized the legality of secession. Ergo, to them, Virginia did not leave the Union during the civil war. Rather the Richmond legislature engaged in illegal acts. 
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The legality of secession was not determined by the Supreme Court until 1869. The Virginians who fought for the north could be considered to be "traitors" to Virginia in the same way that some consider Jeff Davis a "traitor" to the union. [/quote]

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