Confederate Leaders Were Dems
The latest resurgence of racial violence across the nation has revived the movement to remove monuments and statues of the Confederacy from the public arena. The most recent came from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is calling for the removal of 11 statues of Confederate leaders from the Capitol building in Washington. Not surprisingly, nine of these leaders were members of the Democratic Party.
Take Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War. Then there was Edward Douglass White, who left school and enlisted in the Confederate Army. At the conclusion of the Civil War, he served as a Democratic senator from Louisiana and later was appointed to the Supreme Court. These are just a couple of many Confederate Leaders who faithfully served the Democrats, the party of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation.
Tune in as Just the News features more mini-bios of the men behind the statues in the nation’s Capitol building.
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