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Pandering to the base: Florida protects Confederate holidays, makes felons of protesters


Pandering to the base: Florida protects Confederate holidays, makes felons of protesters | Editorial
Orlando Sentinel
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel
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Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a press conference at the Polk County Sheriff s Office, on Monday, April 19, 2021. The governor signed into law a new riot bill, surrounded by law enforcement, legislators, and police union representatives.\r
We’re less than a week away from an official Florida holiday that honors the war dead.
The Confederate war dead.
Florida remains one of a handful of Southern states that still has a separate, state-sanctioned legal holiday for the soldiers who fought to secede from the union in order to preserve the institution of slavery. Confederate Memorial Day in Florida is on April 26, the day Gen. Joseph Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee. ....

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