White-Washers

Huffington Post: A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more positive light, a group of Tea Party activists in Tennessee has renewed its push to whitewash school textbooks. The group is seeking to remove references to slavery and mentions of the country's founders being slave owners.

Ah yes, nothing like watching the party of the Southern Strategy try and bury history. Can't blame them though. History hits them pretty hard. Southern conservatives took up arms against the United States to fight for slavery. Northern progressives defended the United States against those traitors and fought to end slavery. And to this day the philosophical and geographical power base of the Republican party is the confederate south. To this day most of the Republican base prefers the confederate battle flag to the American flag.