Naaahh, Conky. It somehow assuages their liberal guilt over slavery and Jim Crow, even though most of them don't even live in the South and probably had ancestors who fought for the Union. Think of it as an attempt to fulfil the "I have a dream" speech, on a massive scale:

Quote:

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.



Or something like that...
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