Proud to Be a Virginian

HotAir seemed to be a little outraged that Virginia’s new Governor, Bob McDonnell, reinstated Confederate History Month in Virginia. I think its awesome.

I have said it before that I am a Virginian first and an American second. For almost 200 years before there was a United States, there was a Virginia. After 87 years of giving it a go in the United States, Virginia felt it needed to assert its own rights rather than live under tyranny. For a few years during the Confederacy, Virginia was the capitol of a new country. Only Texas and Texans can likewise lay the claim of having once been sovereign. And I think they feel the same way about their state that I do about mine.

Confederate History Month was never about wishing slavery would come back. It is a celebration of the sovereignty of Virginia, its deep culture and rightful place in history.