Does Senator Jim Webb have a Confederate Problem

LSU fans have a little fun on Monday with UC Irvine Comments. See my post( Coach of UC Irvine: LSU FANS DO Not Know CIVIL WAR IS OVER- That Was the Nice Part )

Southern Appeal has a link on Senator Jim Webb of VA and his thoughts on the "Lost Cause". Jim Webb of course is rumored to be on the short list for VP as to Obama. This worries many Republicans , including me because we really need Virgina go for McCain this fall.

Well it appears that the good Senator might have a "Rebel Yell" problem and I am not talking about him being a fan of the British rocker Billy Idol.

It will be interesting to see how the democrats handle this. It is indeed a complicated issue and one that sadly whose voices we hear on both sides are from the extreme.

For instance the article quotes Edward H. Sebesta, who is often the leading expert on everything neo Confederate. Sebasta does good an important work but the problem is he is too extreme. He sees racism and conspiracies where they do not exist. He goes nuts if a for instance if a Naval vessel is named after a Confederate General. I wrote him once a couple of years back that such an attitude clouds the rest of his stuff.

ON the flip side we have groups like the League of the South that has done what is a hostile take over of certain parts of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. A organization that still does on the local level at least a lot of good work.

It strikes me that too many people on both sides use this debate for extreme purposes. It would be nice to return to the attitude of the decades just after the Civil War. I live within driving distance of the Vickburg Military Park. The effort preserve that galliant battlefield was started by Yankees. There are many stories of Union Veterans in their latter years coming on down to Vickburg for massive reunions and remembering those years with their former confederate foes. Those reunions were not hate fest but really a reunion of a "Band of Brothers" that were now again under one flag.

It is amazing that people involved in a horrible bloody civil war can have a much more mature outlook that was a part of the healing of this country than people today.

Anyway an interesting article.