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A List of Things Longer Than the Confederacy Was
1. The (still growing) gap between Anti and whatever Rihanna decides to release when she’s bored hawking drawers to thirsty Deltas. 2. The not-yet-produced comprehensive oral history of Shaun King’s greatest “investment opportunities.” 3. The (approximate) driving distance between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. 4. The stretch of time between middle and high school when I was…
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Most Southerners Don’t Support Confederate Symbols but Still Don’t Know Why the Hell the Civil War Happened
A new poll released this week reveals that white Southerners are fairly divided in how they feel about the Confederate flag and monuments that honor the Confederacy—news unlikely to shock anyone who has followed the conversation around these monuments in Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. Are black respondents quite so divided? Of course the hell not,…