Lee County needs to re-examine link to Confederate General R.E. Lee

"With the influx of northerners and Latino immigrants, Lee County has lost its character as a bastion of Southern culture and values. Yet the symbolism lives on, both in the county's name and in the portrait of General Robert E. Lee in Confederate gray uniform that hangs behind our county commissioners. I believe it is time to re-examine the appropriateness of that symbolism"...REDING

In other words, give up our heritage for dang yankees and wetbacks!...PoP

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ANDREW REDING
Senior Fellow for Hemispheric Affairs
Director, Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights

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