I have been waiting for someone at Chronicles to write a piece in response to Virginia's Confederate History Month controversy, but nothing has been published online yet. In a comment on PJB's article, Dr. Wilson writes:

What a disgusting mess of a pseudo-country the U.S. is. My family on both sides were here in the 1600s and played a modest part in everything since. And I am lectured about my own evil history by someone named Ramesh Ponurru The U.S. is not a country, it is a dead carcass being picked over by international con artists.

Who can sympathize with the white Southerner? Looking at the other passengers watching Anderson Cooper's program, I couldn't figure out what their reaction was. Were they thinking that the proclamation was typical of the backwards, racist South? If Southerners do not stand up for themselves, who else will? No one else can do the work of rebuilding their communities and dealing with outsiders who continue the transformation of the South.