******** are starting to go after the LSU mascot and nickname "Fightin' Tigers"............ties to Civil War outfit (Wheats batallion, etc) the Louisiana Tigers. Mark Ballard: LSU needs to come to terms with Mike the Tiger nickname's Confederate past
Anything/anyone in the South with roots back to the 1850s is going to have what the yankees among us will call racist.
Louisiana, Is Herman Beebe still alive? Should I watch for the black Lincoln speeding down I-10 toward the 830 exit?
Should LSU students be asked to enter a library bearing the name of someone who fought enslavement from Central Powers AND Axis Powers?
States in the Old South may be called upon to change the state name because the current name is associated with the former Confederate States of America. Don't laugh or scoff, someone will suggest or call for consideration of it.
It's an interesting thought about what it might mean if the names were actually Confederate in nature. Everything from Tennessee/Alabama and to the west is Native American etymology, typically referring to nature or, in the case of Texas, how the Spanish felt about the Caddo. Florida is just a Spanish word. It's the Georgia/Carolinas/Virginia where you'd start to get some more arguments. George II: not a horrible King, but not great either, and the British definitely "used" the colony in kind of an indentured way. Charles II: Restoration made Brits feel warm and fuzzy, but he might be solely responsible for the increased tobacco and indigo trade. I could see this one being the most problematic in terms of slavery and how the British colonies became profitable during that era in which they were named. Elizabeth I: meh... she was dead before Jamestown even happened, and probably off her rocker by the time the English even considered the New World a viable option to gain hege against the Spanish.
Charles II was responsible for my relatives re locating first to Barbados and then to the colonies. They were with Cromwell's army and had a part in detaching Charles's head from his torso so they got to leave as opposed to being drawn and quartered. I don't know whether I should denounce his namesake state or be grateful. One of my later relatives allegedly made a lot of money as a slave auctioneer in Charleston so I don't know what to think. Except that I am glad that pack of Baptists picked up and scooted over here and met my German branch.