{"id":8311,"date":"2020-06-12T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2020-06-12T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:55:02","slug":"the-bases-all-in-former-confederate-states-were-named-with-input-from-locals-in-the-jim-crow-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/the-bases-all-in-former-confederate-states-were-named-with-input-from-locals-in-the-jim-crow-era\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The bases, all in former Confederate states, were named with input from locals in the Jim Crow era.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2020\/06\/10\/trump-confederate-bases\/\">Why are Army bases named after Confederates? &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fort Benning in Georgia, the home of Army infantry and airborne training, is named after Brig. Gen. Henry Benning, who led troops at Antietam and Gettysburg. In remarks in 1861 laying out slavery as the reason for secession, Benning warned that abolition would lead to \u201cblack governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything. Is it to be supposed that the white race will stand for that?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px;\">Three of the biggest bases in the United States are named after Confederate leaders, including some who were famously inept.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Army bases named after Confederates? &#8211; The Washington Post Fort Benning in Georgia, the home of Army infantry and airborne training, is named after Brig. Gen. Henry Benning, who led troops at Antietam and Gettysburg. In remarks in 1861 laying out slavery as the reason for secession, Benning warned that abolition would lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/the-bases-all-in-former-confederate-states-were-named-with-input-from-locals-in-the-jim-crow-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The bases, all in former Confederate states, were named with input from locals in the Jim Crow era.&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}