Confederate States

Here is a history lesson/question.

Since, if you look up a list of the Confederate Sates of America, you will find 11 states listed - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina - why are there 13 stars in the
Confederate flag?

Quakertrucker

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beckyromero · 36-40, F

Notice how in those 11 states, the only Democrat senators are the two in Virginia (which has sort of has become a suburb of Washington, D.C. and Doug Jones of Alabama (who defeated controversial former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore)?

In the 21 Union states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin), there are only eleven GOP senators out of 42?

Independent Bernie Sanders (VT) caucuses with Democrats. West Virginia, which was admitted to the Union during the Civil War, has a Democrat and a Republican in the Senate. Nevada, also admitted to the Union during the Civil War, has two Democrats in the Senate.

Viper · M

@beckyromero Yup I have noticed how not a lot has changed... the only thing that has really changed is the labels

As in Lincoln's time you has the New England radical Republicans who were the extreme liberals of the time.

And the Southern blue dog Democrats who were the conservatives at the time.

Which is why I dislike it when history is taught using those labels because too often people put the current label meaning on them and get confused, as they struggle to comprehend the labels did a complete flip.

It would be much better if the history was taught with the liberal or or conservative labels instead of republican or democrat

At least that's my opinion!

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Viper [quote]It would be much better if the history was taught with the liberal or or conservative labels instead of republican or democrat[/quote]

And it's not just the political labels that have changed.

But the demographics of many states as well.

Viper · M

@beckyromero Your right, I shouldn't have said "just"..

Yeah demographic have changed a lot too.