Teaching the Lost Cause in South Carolina
Nikki Haley and the Republican Party are at a Crossroads on the Subject of Slavery and the Civil War.
By now most of you have read about former South Carolina governor and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s recent gaffe in which she ignored slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War. It happened, in of all places, in New Hampshire during a campaign stop. A day later, Haley issued a correction.
This latest flip flop is part …
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