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You can’t rewrite history

On this date in 1861 Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6 year term as U.S. Confederate President. Needless to say he didn’t get his full six years. That’s history. No matter how ugly it was, you can’t rewrite it. Or, you most certainly shouldn’t try. The thought of tearing down monuments and renaming every …

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It’s not that simple

[Mayberry was] a wonderful place to visit and people would fantasize about living there. It’s a place like Brigadoon that shows up every hundred years. It’s a place you dream about living, but you know it’s fantasy and you don’t care. I grew up among people very much like that — a bigger town, but …

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