Sentence examples for confederate from inspiring English sources

Some used the old white supremacist scare tactic of waving Confederate battle flags in front of the home of a black family – in this case, the White House.

Co-opting the confederate flag for his stage wear?

The group's old plate had a small Confederate battle flag.

If Richard Mourdock is your man, just add a red tie with, erm, the confederate stars on – if anyone takes offence and starts an argument, just remind yourself it's God's will.

Republican leaders compound their problems, he adds, with "fool's errands": defending the Confederate flag, visiting Bob Jones University, holding up the appointments of black judges and ambassadors.However, at the local level, Republican hopes for some sort of modest realignment look more realistic.

In fact, Governor William Smith was forced out in 1865, after Virginia and other Confederate states had surrendered.

She has been a steady advocate of the poor, and on one memorable occasion she faced down Senator Jesse Helms and shamed the Senate into killing legislation that would have renewed the patent on the old Confederate flag held by the Daughters of the Confederacy.But, apart from that, she can claim little.

Agriculture, manufacturing and mineral production remain central to the economies of the Deep South states; almost all of the former confederate states are poorer than average (with Mississippi the poorest state in the union).

But he then flip-flopped, saying first that he saw the flag as a symbol of heritage, then that by "heritage" he had meant that of his family (who came from Mississippi, and included fighters for the Confederate side), not the Confederate states.

Mr Barnes already served a term as governor from 1999-2003, where he managed to upset both left (teachers' unions, angered by his aggressive push for educational reform) and right (he removed the confederate flag from the state emblem), losing after a single term to Sonny Perdue, Georgia's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.

Mr Wallis cuts through calcified myths with forensic scholarship (the endnotes are 80 pages long), recovering for posterity a saga that might otherwise have been lost.The founder of the 101 was Colonel G.W. Miller, a confederate soldier from Kentucky who parlayed ambition, risk-taking and courage into a cattle empire.