Sunday, April 21, 2019

A moniker associated with the Confederacy is finally being eliminated after a decades-long battle over its origins

The first record of someone in San Rafael raising an eyebrow at the name of the Dixie school district – whose name is synonymous with the Confederacy – dates back to 1863, a month after its founding and two years into the American civil war.

“It is supposed, by the ominous name, that the young ideas are here to be ‘trained how to shoot’ you,” wrote the Red Bluff Independent, in its 11 December edition.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2IwL77c

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