Friday, January 10, 2020

The Culture War Comes to the Old Dominion

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Since 1969, "Virginia Is for Lovers" has been the tourism and travel slogan of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Advertising Age called it "one of the most iconic ad campaigns in the past 50 years."
But the Virginia of 2020 seems to be another country than the friendly commonwealth to which this writer moved four decades ago.

Charlottesville, home to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, has become famous as the site of a 2017 Klan-Nazi clash with antifa over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a municipal park. During the clash, protester Heather Heyer was run over and killed.
Since 1969, "Virginia Is for Lovers" has been the tourism and travel slogan of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Advertising Age called it "one of the most iconic ad campaigns in the past 50 years."

But the Virginia of 2020 seems to be another country than the friendly commonwealth to which this writer moved four decades ago. 

Charlottesville, home to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, has become famous as the site of a 2017 Klan-Nazi clash with antifa over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a municipal park. During the clash, protester Heather Heyer was run over and killed.

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2 comments:

  1. Secede! The states never had to join the Union and they don't
    have to stay. Nat Turner??? What we have here is a failure
    to be civilized. They pick the worst of the worst. Bring out
    those cyanide spray bottles.

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    1. Post haste:
      Nat Turner's Rebellion, A Gruesome Tale
      https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2013/07/nat-turners-rebellion-gruesome-tale.html

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