Here's a link to a tribute to the Confederate States of America

[jhrobbins]

It was on my YouTube's 'recommended for you' this morning. I cannot imagine what I was looking at to make YouTube think I would want to look at or support this. I only post it, partly because I still am surprised that this stuff is still around and partly because I know why it is still around and want to shine a light on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqHGVLYlw0&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

[Journeyman]

1. I only watched the opening moments, but how much of a tribute can it be. . .

when it uses a Federal tune -- "Dixie" -- for its intro?


The day Lee's surrender was announced in Washington, a crowd gathered before the White House and called for the President to make a speech. Mr Lincoln promised a formal speech the next night, then summoned the band to strike up "Dixie." It was always one of his favorite tunes, Mr Lincoln explained. The rebels took it as theirs, but now the Union had recaptured it and so "it is our lawful prize."

(from) Stephen B. Oates: With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (paraphrased)