Hanover County has twice refused to voluntarily change the names
The Virginia high school whose sports teams are called: “The Confederates.” Photo: Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post/Getty Images In the Commonwealth of Virginia, the very ground is saturated in the bloody history of the Civil War. When I lived in central Virginia, I passed by three major Civil War battlegrounds during my daily commute to Washington.
More specifically, Lee-Davis opened in 1959, in the immediate wake of Virginia’s famous campaign of “Massive Resistance” to desegregation, which at one point threatened the very existence of public schools in the Commonwealth. Stonewall Jackson opened in 1968; the Post generously says it was named “as integration was underway.
This is not about the Civil War or even the Confederacy, or the sacrifices soldiers and civilians made on behalf of the Lost Cause. It’s about the neo-Confederacy, the decidedly ignoble, purely racist effort to keep African-Americans as close to bondage as the power of law and economic and educational deprivations could ensure.
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