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Torie
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« on: February 20, 2016, 08:10:55 AM »
« edited: February 20, 2016, 08:13:50 AM by Torie »

Doing robocalls bashing Trump for supporting Haley's removal of the Confederate flag. It's a little complicated since Haley has endorsed Rubio, but for whatever reason the calls only go after Trump, rather than including Rubio based on guilt by association.  Cruz is doing a fantastic job making sure that he is totally unelectable in a General Election even more than he was.
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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2016, 08:16:28 AM »

I don't see a problem with the ad, it highlights differences amongst candidates positions.

Yeah, in this case, it probably isn't false. Do you hoist the Confederate flag at your home? That is certainly your right, but some voters view that flag as a symbol of the oppression of blacks.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2016, 11:39:05 AM »

It isn't that bad up here in Wilmington, but when I went down to Savannah, Georgia, the amount of Confederate propaganda was CRAZY.

To be honest I think it's actually worse in GA than it is in SC.

I'm curious if it has anything to do with the March to the Sea.

It turns out the March to the Sea did almost no damage to Georgia. It was an uncontested march, and the troops did not in fact fan out to destroy en route. That was Southern propaganda and myth making after the fact. My great grandfather was on that march for the Union. He was at the end of the line, as a sharp shooter, dealing with rebels who were shooting at the Union troop stragglers at the end of the line from the trees, and his job was to shoot back, and pick them off. He told my grandmother that a couple of times, after he fired away, the firing from the trees stopped. His gang got very hungry, because there was not much food for them, that got back to them from the supply trains that were far forward of their position. I should have asked if he helped to burn Columbia, SC to the ground after Savannah, but did not know enough history then to ask my grandmother.
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