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The Confederate cause was primarily about slavery and white supremacy.That’s not what I’m saying. That’s what they themselves were saying in 1860 and 1861. It’s what they were saying throughout the war. It’s only after they lost that, needing to mount a more palatable defense before the bar of history, they decided that it had been about a dispute over states’ rights to which slavery was merely incidental.But let’s travel back to 1860, to the document the first state to secede produced. It doesn’t get much clearer than the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation.The ends for which the Constitution was framed are declared by itself to be "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government, in which each State was recognized as an equal, and had separate control over its own institutions. The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor.We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.On the 4th day of March next, this party will take possession of the Government. It has announced that the South shall be excluded from the common territory, that the judicial tribunals shall be made sectional, and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States.The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy.Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief.We, therefore, the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.Adopted December 24, 1860There you have it.Why did they commit treason against their country? Why did they plunge their country into a devastating civil war? Why did they continue to fight year after year?Slavery, slavery, slavery, slavery, slavery, slaveholding, and slavery.Do I think that US states should be in the business of erecting and maintaining monuments to white supremacy? No. Feel free to call me a snowflake. I will wear it as a badge of honor.

In both Arizona and Ohio, the state police (Arizona Department of Public Safety, Ohio State Highway Patrol) have always been exceptionally polite when I’ve interacted with them. I had a rather uncomfortable run-in with a “Statey” (OSHP) three years ago. The guy was “fall over himself” kind and polite to me and this is the general consensus of people who I know who’ve met them. They are trained to be firm but polite.When I lived in Arizona, the same was true. Every encounter I ever had with ADPS (as well as those who I know who have encountered them) was positively pleasant. I’m not say that in either state there aren’t rude officers, but the general consensus was that these were well-selected, highly trained individuals who cared about the people they served.The interesting thing is that most states use their “State Police” (by any name) as a “watcher of the watchers”: they are tasked with observing local police officers and sheriffs to ensure they aren’t corrupt. I rather like that aspect and have always understood the necessity of being one of them and knowing that they had to arrest their fellow officers.There are multiple cases in Ohio of Stateys arresting another Statey or local police officer. The general belief is —and with merit— that once apprehended, there is no negotiating with them. A Statey, it is said, will give his own mother a speeding ticket. They’re generally service oriented in their attitudes, hard as granite when it comes to doing their job.

Are you happy with your Governor’s response to COVID-19?I am very happy and surprised by Ohio governor, Mike DeWine’s, response to COVID-19. I am surprised because Governor, Mike DeWine is a Republican. I am happy because he has done all of the right, smart and caring things, in spite of the foolish, uncaring directives and self-serving gaslighting of the Republican president.Coronavirus timeline: A look at the orders changing life in OhioHere is a timeline of orders issued by the DeWine administration in response to coronavirus:•March 5: Gov. DeWine and Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announce Arnold Sports Festival closed to spectators and limited to athletes and parents of athletes• March 9: Gov. DeWine declares a State of Emergency after three people test positive for coronavirus in Ohio.• March 10: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose orders more than 100 polling locations at senior centers to be moved. Gov. DeWine and Acton ask colleges and universities to move toward online learning and for indoor sporting events to ban spectators. They also stop visits at prisons.• March 11: Ohio’s fourth case of coronavirus is confirmed. Gov. DeWine limits nursing home visits to one person per patient per day. The governor also discusses plans for restrictions at public events.• March 12: The fifth case of coronavirus is confirmed in Ohio. Gov. DeWine and Acton order K-12 schools to shut down from March 17 to April 6, prohibit mass gatherings of more than 100 people and ban visitors at nursing homes and state psychiatric hospitals.•March 13: Ohio has 13 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Gov. DeWine bans visitors at county jails and corrections centers.• March 15: There are 37 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ohio. Gov. DeWine and Acton order all bars and restaurants to close dining rooms, but carry-out and delivery services can continue.• March 16: Fifty cases of coronavirus confirmed in Ohio. Gov. DeWine asks for Ohio’s election to be extended to June 2. Gov. DeWine and Acton order bowling alleys, movie theaters, indoor water parks, indoor trampoline parks, fitness centers, gyms and recreation centers to close. Acton issues a public order in the evening closing Ohio’s polling locations.• March 17: Gov. DeWine and announced an Ohio Department of Health order declaring elective surgeries and procedures in hospitals be delayed to preserved personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. The governor also signed an executive order allowing Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to provide child care to families with parents who work in health, safety and essential service fields during the pandemic.• March 18: Gov. DeWine ordered the closure of barbershops, beauty salons, tattoo parlors and hair and nail salons. More than 180 Bureau of Motor Vehicles registrar offices were also closed in the state. The governor asked that law enforcement not ticket people who were unable to renew their license due to the registrar closures. Gov. DeWine also asked businesses that are still open to take the temperature of every employee every day prior to work.• March 19: Gov. DeWine announced an executive order that expands telehealth options for Medicaid recipients. The order allows Ohioans to access medical care remotely, reducing the risk of coronavirus exposure.• March 20: The first coronavirus death in Ohio is confirmed. The man, Mark Wagoner Sr., was a Toledo attorney. Gov. DeWine announced an executive order that will close facilities providing older adult daycare services and senior centers. The order will go into effected at the close of business• March 21: The state’s second and third coronavirus deaths are confirmed. Gov. DeWine orders adult day support services for people with developmental disabilities with more than 10 people to close.• March 22: Gov. DeWine and Acton announce a stay-at-home order. Under the order, Ohioans are to stay at home from March 24 to April 7, unless going to get medicine, medical care, groceries, necessary supplies and taking care of neighbors or family. People can also go outside to get exercise or go to work for essential businesses. Starting March 26, childcare centers must have a Temporary Pandemic Child Care license. Centers shouldn’t have more than six kids per class and are to limit use of shared spaces and mixing groups. The license extends to April 30, with the option to extend and adjust.March 23. Lt. Gov. Jon Husted announced an order from the Ohio Department of Insurance that allows employers to defer health insurance premium payments for up to two months.• March 23: Six deaths reported in Ohio. Gov. DeWine order a hiring freeze in state government and on state contracts unless essential to the coronvirus pandemic.I find March 15 especially interesting as March 16–17 are the 2 days when Donald Trump made his whiplash-inducing about face on COVID-19 from “Democratic hoax” to “pandemic.”Have a look at “Trump’s Coronavirus Calendar.”For reference: This is what months of downplaying a pandemic looks like.pic.twitter.com/gH1xZAHXm5— The Recount (@therecount) March 21, 2020Governor DeWine is his own man. He puts people before party. I have a hunch his actions threw the orange gelatinous blob in the White House for a loop.Updatre 3–28–2020: Here is something Governor DeWine was pushing for today:Machines could sanitize 160,000 masks for reuse each day in Ohio, if approved by FDA