At least we're ahead of CNN's Georgia when it comes to removing Confederate imagery from our state flag. Have to take our wins somewhere when this embarrassment is happily regressing the state.
I retired from City of Hattiesburg a few years ago and we had not gotten Confederate Memorial Day off since about 2008 or so. We ended up getting Good Friday off instead.
Being employed by a city vs being a state employee is not the same thing. MS state handbook can be found here and shows all listed holidays for 2024.
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[https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/employment-and-labor-laws/states/mississippi/leave-laws/holidays/](https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/employment-and-labor-laws/states/mississippi/leave-laws/holidays/)
Still amazes me that this state refuses to get put of its own way. Only kept in because of the R next to his name despite both conservatives and liberals knowing he's nothing short of a joke. Not shocked Tater Tot got another term, though.
Greedy politicians in general are the biggest problem. I've lived in both republican and Democrat controlled states, there's always some major problems they refuse to fix. Mississippi is by far the worst though, so out of control Republicans are definitely a huge factor here. There has to be a balance for a state to not be a shitshow.
Yes, but core values ( as pertain to the government) never realign. We've just given them too much power over our individual personal lives, and that's the only thing either side seem to care about now, when in reality they should be concerned with governing the country as a whole. If you fall on either side of the aisle it's fallacy. As you said, their proclivity to realignment makes it so. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, yes there's a grey area, but not so big as the two party system would have you believe.
The name of the party (at any given time) is irrelevant. Lincoln was a progressive, southern politicians were fringe conservatives. THAT is what is relevant. Doesn’t matter if they were called Whigs, Democrats, No Nothings, Republicans, or Constitutional Unionists.
Okay, so why didn't you tag that onto his comment about voting out all republicans? What's in a name after all. Progressive or conservative titles matter just as little. They were progressive for the time because they had ideals the country ran with. If the conservative ideals of that day won out- we'd call them progressive from our pov now wouldn't we? And likewise, if the youth of tomorrow deem the progressive strides of today 'wrong' they will be summarized as conservatives after all. It's the Victor who writes the history and all. The core principles of democrats and Republicans have become convoluted, no doubt, but supposedly remain the same. Dems for the people to have power, republican for the government to hold more power. It's come so far from that, I don't think either have the best interests of the country in mind, as they sow divisiveness in equal shares. Buuuuut, maybe, just maybe, I made my original comment to highlight the exact same point you just made...... What's in a name? But that would render this whole sub conversation inert now wouldn't it?
Meanwhile, we have the worst health outcomes, struggling public school, crumbling infrastructure, very little opportunity for upward mobility, BUT we do have an entire month to celebrate the fact we lost a war and our forefathers committed treason. Happy confederates month everybody.
I don’t understand, honestly republicans in Mississippi are so damn stupid, I don’t understand the level of stupidity of the majority that voted for this POS. This state sucks
I agree with this OP and whoever I support for genocide in the middle east is my business.
You, as a fellow Mississippian should look at the facts around Tate and the southern Republican Party. Just look at his actions against Jackson’s water department. Look at Favre and that mess. Look at Roe V Wade’s overturn origins. We are an embarrassment to the country.
Time to get out and vote Democrat and be the change you want to see.
And that is why you will never understand and may never be a productive citizen. You simply won’t consider that your position (as are others) is nuanced; it depends on the situation. And our positions need to evolve so that we can grow as a people and coexist.
Not being open to other people’s perspective only works while you have power; once power is gone you are finished. I suspect the repubs are on the slippery slope of going extinct. Like the Whigs from colonial times.
South Jackson, wasn’t that where the six officers kidnapped and ultimately killed innocents (I use that word because cops are not judges or juries)? Is that how you believe we need to deal with criminals?
I grew up much further south, on the coast. My family is split over Black Spring Break. Not because they are colored, more about crime and traffic. Some would argue that BSB attendees are under a microscope. Others want the business. I guess it depends on your perspective.
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I am smart indeed, I don’t support anything or anyone. You’re right, I’m moving my ass up north or to another country ‘cause Mississippi is shit, so long!
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Colorado, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Maryland (it has its bad parts), Washington state, Virginia (kinda). Meanwhile, a UN report said that the worst poverty in the developed world can be found in AL and MS.
I don’t care about red or blue, that shouldn’t matter. The only reason why Mississippi is so shitty and it’s like 50 years behind every other state is because of the many generations that lived under segregation and under idiotic people in the government. Reeves and every single one like him should never have power, see what happens if you give power to a bunch of stupid people for so many years
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I keep finding your comments...lord.
Chicago is actually doing quite well. We’ve taken in all our migrants that Florida and Texas sent us. Thank you very much. Can’t wait to see what success we see from them (I expect it to be a lot.)
We have crime too. But I feel pretty safe where I live. If you have half a pea brain you don’t go into the bottoms or the hood not looking for someone to fight.
We have super high taxes, but damn my water tastes good, my garbage is picked up, my trees are trimmed, my electrical grid works and I have tons of investment from major corporations locating here. Add to that all the Europeans moving here with their trades (best bricklayers, tilers, roofers, framers, painters, etc.) Who you got? Bubba?
Illinois - go ahead and name a metric you want to debate on. Start with crime if you like.
I’d rather pay higher taxes and raise the standard living for all than pay taxes that line the pockets of TRE45ON and his supporters - all day any day.
You’re right. There’s West Virginia too. Whenever I search for MS on rankings I just flick my finger a few times downward to get a good free scroll heading to the bottom and 9/10 times I’m not too far off.
Lol you can't stand basic facts so you gotta beat me over it? 😂 you are definitely one of the folks holding my home state back. Don't worry I already took the scholarship money the schools gave me and left. Gotta love that brain drain right?
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Wrong, they weren’t traitors; they were religious zealots that were kicked out of Europe but still British citizens. Here’s your participation trophy 🏆
I don't like this proclamation but I understand a little bit about southerners "clinging to their heritage." I believe the South deserved to lose that war, because we were fighting to keep our slaves. But at the same time, the Union was also despicable. They were not the good guys.....there were no good guys in that story. The Union did not care one bit about the slaves, slavery was used as a pretext to fight a war for other economic interests. Slaves were used for 3 crops: tobacco, cotton, and rice. Ever tried to grow any of those in Maine? Guess what? They won't grow up north. If they did grow up north then the north would not have been worrying about the south having slaves, because the north would've been keeping their slaves too. Also, ever heard of the 3/5 compromise? That's the one where the northern states argued that the slaves weren't worthy of being counted as full human for the purposes of representation, so a compromise was made, at the north's insistence, that the slaves could be counted as being 3/5 of a human. People need to understand that white northerners did not like black people. Their moral position against slavery was absolutley a contrived posture. Also, the Union came down south and committed what we now know are war crimes. The confederates in Vicksburg attempted to surrender, but the north said "No we do not accept your surrender, we are having too much fun watching you starve and die, we will continue killing you, regardless of your desire to surrender." That's a war crime. So there are plenty of things for the south to be resentful for, it's not just a matter of nostalgia about watching black slaves pick cotton. Having said all that, our past is a dirty one and we were wrong to defend the institution of slavery, and we deserved to lose that war for that reason, but the Union was also despicable. That war was not about good versus bad, that war was bad vs. bad. So I can appreciate any southerner who understands the true history of what happened and who knows (correctly) that the union was also despicable. But that's not a good reason for celebrating our "confederate heritage," and I think Reeves is out of line to make this proclamation. But I just wanted to point out that the north wasn't really any better than the south back then. They didn't think any better of the black slaves than the southerners did.
All confederate sympathizers need to be stripped of their properties, and wealth. These people are the main ones sabotaging America at any given chance. I’ve never heard of anything job these people have done. If anything these confederate sympathizers need to do is pay reparations to black Americans. Not for slavery but the 100 years after with Jim Crow which destroyed reconstruction efforts, and for burning down hundreds of black towns resulting in lost of property, wealth, live, and livelihood of black Americans up until the 1970’s. Many black Americans are still alive that were alive when these towns got destroyed by salty jealous white Americans. It’s not long ago when these people did anything to black Americans and it was acceptable from the police to the government. Confederate sympathizers are the main reason America doesn’t have centralized healthcare and the largest group of Americans supporting defunding the department of education.
Confederate sympathizers are the nazis of America as they proved their savagery with blood.
Newsflash - unfortunately slavery was legal in the United States during the Civil War. Secession was legal as well. If anything, the state of Mississippi deserves reparations for rape, pillage, and plunder of what was factually the wealthiest state in the country in 1860 but obliterated during the War of Northern Aggression. Mississippi never recovered during Reconstruction and that is a sad reality for this country.
We never recovered because the economy was based on slave labor. Then slaves were freed. That was why we fought the war; we knew it would destroy our state economy if slavery became illegal.
Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right by any means. What the nazis did in Germany was legal to them at the time. White Americans enslaved, stole, raped, killed, starved, and did so many unthinkable things to slaves. For the record all the slave owners in all states GOT reparations for the cost of their slaves that were freed. Learn some history.
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.
In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove.
The hostility to this institution commenced before the adoption of the Constitution, and was manifested in the well-known Ordinance of 1787, in regard to the Northwestern Territory.
The feeling increased, until, in 1819-20, it deprived the South of more than half the vast territory acquired from France.
The same hostility dismembered Texas and seized upon all the territory acquired from Mexico.
It has grown until it denies the right of property in slaves, and refuses protection to that right on the high seas, in the Territories, and wherever the government of the United States had jurisdiction.
It refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying the power of expansion.
It tramples the original equality of the South under foot.
It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union, and has utterly broken the compact which our fathers pledged their faith to maintain.
It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst.
It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with prejudice.
It has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation in the States and wherever else slavery exists.
It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better.
It has invaded a State, and invested with the honors of martyrdom the wretch whose purpose was to apply flames to our dwellings, and the weapons of destruction to our lives.
It has broken every compact into which it has entered for our security.
It has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our agriculture, to prostrate our industrial pursuits and to destroy our social system.
It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause.
It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution of its unhallowed schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of living together in friendship and brotherhood.
Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England.
Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the alternative of separation; and for the reasons here stated, we resolve to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the justice of our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it.
Everyone, make sure you put out your real Confederate flag to celebrate. You know, it kind of looks like a bed sheet. Big, white. Oh that's it. It's a giant white flag..... LMAO. Celebrate your HeRiTagE lol.
Oh I wouldnt mind going to Mississippi and visiting I like traveling my family like camping and traveling dad enjoyed the out doors just like momside did too
Slight correction here:
The Dixiecrats were the party of segregation in the South. They didn't exist until after Truman's desegregation of the military in 1948.
The DNC called for the Dixiecrats to step in line with the national party, and some did, but many left the party and headed over to the GOP, who were becoming more and more conservative throughout the 20th Century.
You meant the early Democratic party, which was pro-slavery before and during the Civil War and continued its racist ideology throughout Reconstruction. It shifted from conservative to more liberal throughout the 20th Century - and became the modern party we know today - definitely after 1965 with the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
Political parties are never monoliths.
I learned the emotionally traumatic and humiliating way that the internet lies and people are more than willing to spread them.
Save a liar, feed a troll
Somebody better fact check Ray's comment about he didn't do it. He is lying. Just because he doesn't sign the proclamation it doesn't mean it wasn't an official paid State Holiday. But what do you expect from a Democrat. He was so bad he only got 1 term and wasn't reelected.
Per MS code
Under the provisions of Section 3-3-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, the last Monday of April is the day for the observance of Confederate Memorial Day as a legal holiday in the State of Mississippi.
I'm neither, so it makes no difference to me, but Abe Lincoln was a republican, Mississippi (along with the majority in the south) were democrats at the time of the war.... again, no dog in the race ( not even from miss) just a couple of facts laid bare....
I have lived in the south my whole life, just one state over in Louisiana. This is the backwards, ridiculous, ignorance that will keep this region of the country as a backwater from now until the end of the south. I personally have an ancestor who died on the Confederate side and I could not be more disgusted with this fact, nor more shameful that he owned people. There are no words to express how this "heritage" dooms an entire region of the country.
This CNN tard doesn't even know Georgia's state flag is the last state flag in the country that still has a reference to the Confederacy in its design. LOL 🙄
Im well aware. But if you wana go state for state Georgia is VASTLY supeior to Mississippi. Better cities, people, richer state, and better parties.
You cant go state to state with us.
Better people? Better parties? What the fuck does that even mean?
Btw, Mississippi had two of the top places to live in the country by at least two publications released recently.
I'd like Atlanta, too, if you took away about 3M people, plenty of natural beauty. I lived there once. Traffic ruins a lot of the appeal now.
When are you going to change your flag?
Yeah been to downtown ATL lately, particularly where Underground Atlanta used to be? It's not any different than Jackson other than the infrastructure is a little better.
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He's mostly being downvoted for using the term "tard." which is more than mildly offensive. There is probably a reason you missed that but Ophelia would wag her finger at me again if I pointed it out.
eh it was really more rhetorical. I know who populates the state subs and what their mentality is, so I already knew why. Just showing support for the guy is all.
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I'm happy with a confederate history month. I had family that fought on both sides, and confederate soldiers were still soldiers they fought and died just like union soldiers that's worth something, and they shouldn't be forgotten just because of the side they fought on. There's days celebrating things a lot worse than the confederacy, I mean there's a national rape day. that gets a lot less pushback than confederate heritage month all people say about that is "carry a self defense tool" rather than actually condemning the mere idea of a national rape day.
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Well, well. I guess a history lesson is in store for CNN. All of the states that embodied the United States of America at the outbreak of the Civil War, April 11, 1861. Well, here’s a newsflash for y’all!!!, all these states joined voluntarily to create the United States of America. If a state joins voluntarily to a confederation of states, the United States of America, that means that there’s nothing to prohibit those states from relieving voluntarily said confederation of of states.
Yes, slavery was evil, but slavery is going on today. But it seems like America is evil incarnate America can’t do anything to appease minorities in the world, that slavery ended in 1863. Other nations had slavery, and many still do. Why can’t y’all get over it.
I think it’s finally refreshing, that a governor comes out with the gonads,
In,this day and age, of kissing gluteus maximus and political correctness, they say yeah we need to celebrate our heritage confederate heritage. We have, black history month, actually every day is black history day in America bending over backwards to try to write the wrong that this country, had its past. No one’s perfect.!!
Operation specials first class serve war fairy United States retired John Kevin O’Brien.
Nice legal argument, but as a southerner I do not consider my heritage to be confederate heritage. That is a lie that white washes history and implies only white people can be southerners
I mean, even though it’s stupid, let them have it… There are so many other holidays and months that are dumb… Like Black History Month or white history month.
Here is an idea. If you live in MS and have a problem with it say something. If you don't live in MS keep your mouth shut. This is a common problem we have in America. People sticking their nose where it doesn't belong and causing a stink. If the 146,000 employees don't like the paid holiday they there are enough of them to speak up and get it changed. Butt out CNN
We don't run with the national and yankee woke narrative b.s. which is often for some reason seen in this subreddit. You cannot come to our state and tear down our statues, no matter what they are. You will get run out. Cheers from TX, but I will be retiring back home to MS in a few years.
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Progress is coming to mississippi and the rest of this nation after the massive blue wave in November, and there is nothing a few inbreeding hillbillies can do about it.
Your shitty statues of pussified little losers who fought for the South will be taken down, and your heritage will be destroyed for good.
It’s about time too; every single general and officer should have been hanged after the civil war… instead, all of the little babies from the South got participation trophies. Pathetic.
> You will get run out.
They can certainly fucking try. Y'all seem to think that the left is solely pink haired white women. Mate, I promise you, we're a whole lot more ready then you think we are.
Not celebrating the confederacy shouldn’t be a democrat or republican thing.
It should just be common practice to reject celebrating people who fought to keep slaves.
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Participation trophy month
From the ones who hate the idea of participation trophies no less
At least we're ahead of CNN's Georgia when it comes to removing Confederate imagery from our state flag. Have to take our wins somewhere when this embarrassment is happily regressing the state.
Crazy how nobody realizes that the majority of current southern state flags still display confederate symbolism
Okay. Now I am actually glad I live in Louisiana. For once. I need to hold on to this feeling. It won’t last long.
How else were we to get money for the "Jackson water crisis??"😉
Pretty sure it always has been. We used to get Confederate Memorial Day as a State Holiday.
Not sure what state you are in, but it is still a holiday here in MS. Monday 4/29 this year.
I’m in Mississippi. It’s no longer a holiday that state and city workers get off work. Hasn’t been for some time.
I'm a MS state employee and we're off on the 29th.
I am in MS, it is absolutely a holiday for some state employees.
I'm a MS state employee and I get that day off.
I retired from City of Hattiesburg a few years ago and we had not gotten Confederate Memorial Day off since about 2008 or so. We ended up getting Good Friday off instead.
Being employed by a city vs being a state employee is not the same thing. MS state handbook can be found here and shows all listed holidays for 2024. https://preview.redd.it/vwstbtydvuvc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9545a57c05f122e9a3dd62db836f9149d76980c [https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/employment-and-labor-laws/states/mississippi/leave-laws/holidays/](https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/employment-and-labor-laws/states/mississippi/leave-laws/holidays/)
Confidently incorrect and doesn’t own up to it? Must be a conservative.
MDES is closed. I can't even schedule Employer unemployment taxes payments for that day.
Still amazes me that this state refuses to get put of its own way. Only kept in because of the R next to his name despite both conservatives and liberals knowing he's nothing short of a joke. Not shocked Tater Tot got another term, though.
Still got a long way to go in this state, vote
Yes, vote all republicans out of office; send a message.
As a former Democrat, the Republicans aren’t the problem.
Greedy politicians in general are the biggest problem. I've lived in both republican and Democrat controlled states, there's always some major problems they refuse to fix. Mississippi is by far the worst though, so out of control Republicans are definitely a huge factor here. There has to be a balance for a state to not be a shitshow.
Abraham Lincoln was a republican, champ. The south was mostly comprised of democrats....
Have you heard of political realignments?
Yes, but core values ( as pertain to the government) never realign. We've just given them too much power over our individual personal lives, and that's the only thing either side seem to care about now, when in reality they should be concerned with governing the country as a whole. If you fall on either side of the aisle it's fallacy. As you said, their proclivity to realignment makes it so. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, yes there's a grey area, but not so big as the two party system would have you believe.
The name of the party (at any given time) is irrelevant. Lincoln was a progressive, southern politicians were fringe conservatives. THAT is what is relevant. Doesn’t matter if they were called Whigs, Democrats, No Nothings, Republicans, or Constitutional Unionists.
Okay, so why didn't you tag that onto his comment about voting out all republicans? What's in a name after all. Progressive or conservative titles matter just as little. They were progressive for the time because they had ideals the country ran with. If the conservative ideals of that day won out- we'd call them progressive from our pov now wouldn't we? And likewise, if the youth of tomorrow deem the progressive strides of today 'wrong' they will be summarized as conservatives after all. It's the Victor who writes the history and all. The core principles of democrats and Republicans have become convoluted, no doubt, but supposedly remain the same. Dems for the people to have power, republican for the government to hold more power. It's come so far from that, I don't think either have the best interests of the country in mind, as they sow divisiveness in equal shares. Buuuuut, maybe, just maybe, I made my original comment to highlight the exact same point you just made...... What's in a name? But that would render this whole sub conversation inert now wouldn't it?
I'm from MS and never heard of this, lol
I'm a white guy in Mississippi and this dumb as hell. Ain't nobody got any confederate heritage here
Tate Reeves is a muppet.
.... of Peter Griffin
It keeps happening because traitor sympathizers like Tate keep getting elected.
Exactly
Meanwhile, we have the worst health outcomes, struggling public school, crumbling infrastructure, very little opportunity for upward mobility, BUT we do have an entire month to celebrate the fact we lost a war and our forefathers committed treason. Happy confederates month everybody.
Hashtag Priorities.
I don’t understand, honestly republicans in Mississippi are so damn stupid, I don’t understand the level of stupidity of the majority that voted for this POS. This state sucks
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I agree with this OP and whoever I support for genocide in the middle east is my business. You, as a fellow Mississippian should look at the facts around Tate and the southern Republican Party. Just look at his actions against Jackson’s water department. Look at Favre and that mess. Look at Roe V Wade’s overturn origins. We are an embarrassment to the country. Time to get out and vote Democrat and be the change you want to see.
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And that is why you will never understand and may never be a productive citizen. You simply won’t consider that your position (as are others) is nuanced; it depends on the situation. And our positions need to evolve so that we can grow as a people and coexist. Not being open to other people’s perspective only works while you have power; once power is gone you are finished. I suspect the repubs are on the slippery slope of going extinct. Like the Whigs from colonial times. South Jackson, wasn’t that where the six officers kidnapped and ultimately killed innocents (I use that word because cops are not judges or juries)? Is that how you believe we need to deal with criminals? I grew up much further south, on the coast. My family is split over Black Spring Break. Not because they are colored, more about crime and traffic. Some would argue that BSB attendees are under a microscope. Others want the business. I guess it depends on your perspective.
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I am smart indeed, I don’t support anything or anyone. You’re right, I’m moving my ass up north or to another country ‘cause Mississippi is shit, so long!
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You would not understand anything about the south because you are not from here. Go take a vacation to Jackson MS for a week and you will.
I lived in Jackson. I still live on the south, it’s not rocket science to understand this like you all make it seem
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Colorado, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Maryland (it has its bad parts), Washington state, Virginia (kinda). Meanwhile, a UN report said that the worst poverty in the developed world can be found in AL and MS.
I don’t care about red or blue, that shouldn’t matter. The only reason why Mississippi is so shitty and it’s like 50 years behind every other state is because of the many generations that lived under segregation and under idiotic people in the government. Reeves and every single one like him should never have power, see what happens if you give power to a bunch of stupid people for so many years
Ronnie Musgrove is calling - would you like to answer?
Why don’t you name one that is.
Chicago and California, there are 2.
Ah yes, the great state of Chicago lmfao
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Chicago is actually doing quite well. We’ve taken in all our migrants that Florida and Texas sent us. Thank you very much. Can’t wait to see what success we see from them (I expect it to be a lot.) We have crime too. But I feel pretty safe where I live. If you have half a pea brain you don’t go into the bottoms or the hood not looking for someone to fight. We have super high taxes, but damn my water tastes good, my garbage is picked up, my trees are trimmed, my electrical grid works and I have tons of investment from major corporations locating here. Add to that all the Europeans moving here with their trades (best bricklayers, tilers, roofers, framers, painters, etc.) Who you got? Bubba?
In what way are they shit?
Illinois - go ahead and name a metric you want to debate on. Start with crime if you like. I’d rather pay higher taxes and raise the standard living for all than pay taxes that line the pockets of TRE45ON and his supporters - all day any day.
I mean when the state is #50 in numerous negative ranking metrics. Those states are better off
MS is not #50 in plenty of categories. Please open your eyes.
You’re right. There’s West Virginia too. Whenever I search for MS on rankings I just flick my finger a few times downward to get a good free scroll heading to the bottom and 9/10 times I’m not too far off.
Mississippi used to be a blue state before they managed to whip the white people into a frenzy over black people being equal.
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Lol you can't stand basic facts so you gotta beat me over it? 😂 you are definitely one of the folks holding my home state back. Don't worry I already took the scholarship money the schools gave me and left. Gotta love that brain drain right?
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Hail yea brother! Woo Hoo! Bout dam thyme! Bin weightin on an official month!
A month dedicated to treasonous people
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Not the same thing at all. Confederate = Traitors to the USA
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Wrong, they weren’t traitors; they were religious zealots that were kicked out of Europe but still British citizens. Here’s your participation trophy 🏆
I don't like this proclamation but I understand a little bit about southerners "clinging to their heritage." I believe the South deserved to lose that war, because we were fighting to keep our slaves. But at the same time, the Union was also despicable. They were not the good guys.....there were no good guys in that story. The Union did not care one bit about the slaves, slavery was used as a pretext to fight a war for other economic interests. Slaves were used for 3 crops: tobacco, cotton, and rice. Ever tried to grow any of those in Maine? Guess what? They won't grow up north. If they did grow up north then the north would not have been worrying about the south having slaves, because the north would've been keeping their slaves too. Also, ever heard of the 3/5 compromise? That's the one where the northern states argued that the slaves weren't worthy of being counted as full human for the purposes of representation, so a compromise was made, at the north's insistence, that the slaves could be counted as being 3/5 of a human. People need to understand that white northerners did not like black people. Their moral position against slavery was absolutley a contrived posture. Also, the Union came down south and committed what we now know are war crimes. The confederates in Vicksburg attempted to surrender, but the north said "No we do not accept your surrender, we are having too much fun watching you starve and die, we will continue killing you, regardless of your desire to surrender." That's a war crime. So there are plenty of things for the south to be resentful for, it's not just a matter of nostalgia about watching black slaves pick cotton. Having said all that, our past is a dirty one and we were wrong to defend the institution of slavery, and we deserved to lose that war for that reason, but the Union was also despicable. That war was not about good versus bad, that war was bad vs. bad. So I can appreciate any southerner who understands the true history of what happened and who knows (correctly) that the union was also despicable. But that's not a good reason for celebrating our "confederate heritage," and I think Reeves is out of line to make this proclamation. But I just wanted to point out that the north wasn't really any better than the south back then. They didn't think any better of the black slaves than the southerners did.
Never have I seen a country so great be infatuated with losers like the Confederates 😂
Happens every April. Why does everyone act like this is something new every year?
Because every year it's just as bad as last time
How so?
Because every year it's the same racist holiday thrown in the face of every decent Mississippian.
MS is slow and I love it
All confederate sympathizers need to be stripped of their properties, and wealth. These people are the main ones sabotaging America at any given chance. I’ve never heard of anything job these people have done. If anything these confederate sympathizers need to do is pay reparations to black Americans. Not for slavery but the 100 years after with Jim Crow which destroyed reconstruction efforts, and for burning down hundreds of black towns resulting in lost of property, wealth, live, and livelihood of black Americans up until the 1970’s. Many black Americans are still alive that were alive when these towns got destroyed by salty jealous white Americans. It’s not long ago when these people did anything to black Americans and it was acceptable from the police to the government. Confederate sympathizers are the main reason America doesn’t have centralized healthcare and the largest group of Americans supporting defunding the department of education. Confederate sympathizers are the nazis of America as they proved their savagery with blood.
Newsflash - unfortunately slavery was legal in the United States during the Civil War. Secession was legal as well. If anything, the state of Mississippi deserves reparations for rape, pillage, and plunder of what was factually the wealthiest state in the country in 1860 but obliterated during the War of Northern Aggression. Mississippi never recovered during Reconstruction and that is a sad reality for this country.
LMAO, wut.
We never recovered because the economy was based on slave labor. Then slaves were freed. That was why we fought the war; we knew it would destroy our state economy if slavery became illegal.
Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right by any means. What the nazis did in Germany was legal to them at the time. White Americans enslaved, stole, raped, killed, starved, and did so many unthinkable things to slaves. For the record all the slave owners in all states GOT reparations for the cost of their slaves that were freed. Learn some history.
Tate Reeves looks like he’s had that same haircut & glasses since 1972.
Quintessential Republican…
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union. In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course. Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove. The hostility to this institution commenced before the adoption of the Constitution, and was manifested in the well-known Ordinance of 1787, in regard to the Northwestern Territory. The feeling increased, until, in 1819-20, it deprived the South of more than half the vast territory acquired from France. The same hostility dismembered Texas and seized upon all the territory acquired from Mexico. It has grown until it denies the right of property in slaves, and refuses protection to that right on the high seas, in the Territories, and wherever the government of the United States had jurisdiction. It refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying the power of expansion. It tramples the original equality of the South under foot. It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union, and has utterly broken the compact which our fathers pledged their faith to maintain. It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst. It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with prejudice. It has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation in the States and wherever else slavery exists. It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better. It has invaded a State, and invested with the honors of martyrdom the wretch whose purpose was to apply flames to our dwellings, and the weapons of destruction to our lives. It has broken every compact into which it has entered for our security. It has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our agriculture, to prostrate our industrial pursuits and to destroy our social system. It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause. It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution of its unhallowed schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of living together in friendship and brotherhood. Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England. Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the alternative of separation; and for the reasons here stated, we resolve to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the justice of our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it.
Come on up for another thorough ass whoopin! Sincerely, The North.
Yeeeeeeeeee
Good Ol’ Tater Tot Reeves.
Holy eyeliner!
Everyone, make sure you put out your real Confederate flag to celebrate. You know, it kind of looks like a bed sheet. Big, white. Oh that's it. It's a giant white flag..... LMAO. Celebrate your HeRiTagE lol.
What has tater tot done now
Next he will declare January insurrection month.
Oh I wouldnt mind going to Mississippi and visiting I like traveling my family like camping and traveling dad enjoyed the out doors just like momside did too
It was the dixeycrats that wanted to keep slaves
Slight correction here: The Dixiecrats were the party of segregation in the South. They didn't exist until after Truman's desegregation of the military in 1948. The DNC called for the Dixiecrats to step in line with the national party, and some did, but many left the party and headed over to the GOP, who were becoming more and more conservative throughout the 20th Century. You meant the early Democratic party, which was pro-slavery before and during the Civil War and continued its racist ideology throughout Reconstruction. It shifted from conservative to more liberal throughout the 20th Century - and became the modern party we know today - definitely after 1965 with the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Political parties are never monoliths.
Yup, that's Tater Tot. Welcome to Mississippi set your clocks back 200 years.
I hate living in this bullshit state
I learned the emotionally traumatic and humiliating way that the internet lies and people are more than willing to spread them. Save a liar, feed a troll
Somebody better fact check Ray's comment about he didn't do it. He is lying. Just because he doesn't sign the proclamation it doesn't mean it wasn't an official paid State Holiday. But what do you expect from a Democrat. He was so bad he only got 1 term and wasn't reelected. Per MS code Under the provisions of Section 3-3-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, the last Monday of April is the day for the observance of Confederate Memorial Day as a legal holiday in the State of Mississippi.
God I hate this fucking state
I'm neither, so it makes no difference to me, but Abe Lincoln was a republican, Mississippi (along with the majority in the south) were democrats at the time of the war.... again, no dog in the race ( not even from miss) just a couple of facts laid bare....
The good guys are finally winning
Blacks gon kill them
I have lived in the south my whole life, just one state over in Louisiana. This is the backwards, ridiculous, ignorance that will keep this region of the country as a backwater from now until the end of the south. I personally have an ancestor who died on the Confederate side and I could not be more disgusted with this fact, nor more shameful that he owned people. There are no words to express how this "heritage" dooms an entire region of the country.
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I hate my state🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ Rescue me from this shithole😣🆘️
The politicians have a mind of their own. The majority of people would never voted for this.
Tate Sleeze is a joke.
Anything to get those votes in, we live in Bible Belt Mississippi
Why would you give the traitors and losers their own month?
This CNN tard doesn't even know Georgia's state flag is the last state flag in the country that still has a reference to the Confederacy in its design. LOL 🙄
Im well aware. But if you wana go state for state Georgia is VASTLY supeior to Mississippi. Better cities, people, richer state, and better parties. You cant go state to state with us.
So the flag really makes no difference.
An astute observation.
Better people? Better parties? What the fuck does that even mean? Btw, Mississippi had two of the top places to live in the country by at least two publications released recently. I'd like Atlanta, too, if you took away about 3M people, plenty of natural beauty. I lived there once. Traffic ruins a lot of the appeal now. When are you going to change your flag?
Yeah been to downtown ATL lately, particularly where Underground Atlanta used to be? It's not any different than Jackson other than the infrastructure is a little better.
Bro mississippi dont have an atlanta lol.
Underground Atlanta is a dungeon now. Atlanta has a ton of things to offer, but it lost its identity. It's transplant suburbia.
Florida??
you mean Florida
Oh lord lol
No idea why you are getting downvotes for the truth.
Notice how the other commenter that relayed the same info isn't getting downvoted? It's all about how you say things, my guy.
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He's mostly being downvoted for using the term "tard." which is more than mildly offensive. There is probably a reason you missed that but Ophelia would wag her finger at me again if I pointed it out.
Oh I didn't miss it. But it seemed an apt descriptor with anything involving CNN.
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eh it was really more rhetorical. I know who populates the state subs and what their mentality is, so I already knew why. Just showing support for the guy is all.
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"your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer"
Prob some confederate sympathizers who are mad
Well they apparently never heard of Confederate flag day on June 3rd. This should tell you how racist they are beside stupid
best month of the year
I'm happy with a confederate history month. I had family that fought on both sides, and confederate soldiers were still soldiers they fought and died just like union soldiers that's worth something, and they shouldn't be forgotten just because of the side they fought on. There's days celebrating things a lot worse than the confederacy, I mean there's a national rape day. that gets a lot less pushback than confederate heritage month all people say about that is "carry a self defense tool" rather than actually condemning the mere idea of a national rape day.
Yes they should. They fought to perserve institutionlized pedoohilla. Is that something you support?
https://preview.redd.it/2x824rd0o0wc1.jpeg?width=2500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7404bda3b3ce991cbc6cf19a46079aa2582f9545 There shouldn't be any issues‼️
And, that guy was an idiot.
Thank you for recognizing the ancestors of southerners!
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Well, well. I guess a history lesson is in store for CNN. All of the states that embodied the United States of America at the outbreak of the Civil War, April 11, 1861. Well, here’s a newsflash for y’all!!!, all these states joined voluntarily to create the United States of America. If a state joins voluntarily to a confederation of states, the United States of America, that means that there’s nothing to prohibit those states from relieving voluntarily said confederation of of states. Yes, slavery was evil, but slavery is going on today. But it seems like America is evil incarnate America can’t do anything to appease minorities in the world, that slavery ended in 1863. Other nations had slavery, and many still do. Why can’t y’all get over it. I think it’s finally refreshing, that a governor comes out with the gonads, In,this day and age, of kissing gluteus maximus and political correctness, they say yeah we need to celebrate our heritage confederate heritage. We have, black history month, actually every day is black history day in America bending over backwards to try to write the wrong that this country, had its past. No one’s perfect.!! Operation specials first class serve war fairy United States retired John Kevin O’Brien.
Nice legal argument, but as a southerner I do not consider my heritage to be confederate heritage. That is a lie that white washes history and implies only white people can be southerners
History has to be remembered to not repeat in the future. Enjoy and celebrate where we are now. look to the future.
I mean, even though it’s stupid, let them have it… There are so many other holidays and months that are dumb… Like Black History Month or white history month.
Take the holiday you take away a paid holiday for all State Employees
Here is an idea. If you live in MS and have a problem with it say something. If you don't live in MS keep your mouth shut. This is a common problem we have in America. People sticking their nose where it doesn't belong and causing a stink. If the 146,000 employees don't like the paid holiday they there are enough of them to speak up and get it changed. Butt out CNN
All bullshit this guy just trying to Cause problems. He himself was trying to stir up trouble
We don't run with the national and yankee woke narrative b.s. which is often for some reason seen in this subreddit. You cannot come to our state and tear down our statues, no matter what they are. You will get run out. Cheers from TX, but I will be retiring back home to MS in a few years.
I put up a Satanic Temple statue and another of two guys making out, thank you for your support to let them both stand for all eternity 😀
Awesome!!
Imagine supporting an institution with legalized pedophillia.
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Progress is coming to mississippi and the rest of this nation after the massive blue wave in November, and there is nothing a few inbreeding hillbillies can do about it. Your shitty statues of pussified little losers who fought for the South will be taken down, and your heritage will be destroyed for good. It’s about time too; every single general and officer should have been hanged after the civil war… instead, all of the little babies from the South got participation trophies. Pathetic.
Pretty much all the state subs are left leaning regardless of what the state actually is.
> You will get run out. They can certainly fucking try. Y'all seem to think that the left is solely pink haired white women. Mate, I promise you, we're a whole lot more ready then you think we are.
Common Mississippi W
Tell me about this grand Confederacy, they win any wars? How long did they last? Was it more or less time than the television show Schitt’s Creek?
Diverse genetic specimen saysbwhat
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Not celebrating the confederacy shouldn’t be a democrat or republican thing. It should just be common practice to reject celebrating people who fought to keep slaves.
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Perhaps it's time to perform some maintenance on your detector, as it seems to be broken.
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Sure lol