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| Jeff Davis Highway renamed Richmond Highway |
| 2019-09-06 |
| [Breitbart] Jefferson Davis Highway ‐ named for the Congressman, Senator, Secretary of War, and president of the Confederacy ‐ will now be called Richmond Highway on the portion of the road that runs through Arlington County, Virginia. The Commonwealth Transportation Board made the decision and Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring finalized the deal, according to Fox 5 News. Delegate Mark Levine, a Democrat representing Alexandria, Arlington, and Fairfax, told Fox 5 News constituents told him several years ago that the name "upset" them. "Levine approached Herring with a legal argument that would allow counties to change state highway names without approval by the General Assembly," Fox 5 News reported. "For my constituents, it’s a way to say Arlington today is not the Arlington of 100 years ago," Levine said. "This is a county that welcomes people, that welcomes our diverse population." "It does not support the person who fought for slavery," said Levine. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Red Levine, Red Herring. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-06 18:51 |
| #7 I believe Jeff Davis Highway is US 1. Certainly it was in Fredericksburg, VA, where I used to live. I don't know if the madness has spread south from Arlington to Fredericksburg. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-09-06 18:23 |
| #6 Is somebody gonna tell the Delegates that Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy? Or was it the capitol? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-09-06 14:59 |
| #5 The U.D.C.'s decision to extend the highway to the Canadian border in the Northwest may seem odd. However, the link is not as odd as it may seem. On May 24, 1941, at the instigation of the U.D.C., a monument marking the northwestern terminus of the Jefferson Davis National Highway was unveiled near the Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington. The memorial was justified on the basis that Jefferson Davis, as U.S. Secretary of War before the Civil War, had obtained appropriations and directed surveys for wagon roads and railroads to the North Pacific Coast. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-09-06 12:35 |
| #4 U.S. 99 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-09-06 12:34 |
| #3 What about all the stuff named for Jeff Davis in the Northwest. He led a big RR failure out there before the Civil War. Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-09-06 12:33 |
| #2 Will there be rest areas renamed as safe spaces? |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2019-09-06 11:26 |
| #1 Destroying People by taking away their histoŕy |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-06 10:54 |