Politicians eat dirt to placate critics.
Southern politicians were once great defenders of their region’s heritage and traditions. Now any past association with the Confederacy means groveling.
Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Lee apologized last week after reporters found a college yearbook photo of him in a Confederate uniform. He wore it as part of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity’s “Old South” ball, a tradition the fraternity has—of course—abandoned. The men dressed up as Confederate officers and their ladies as southern belles.
Other Kappa Alpha men are taking a beating. The Nashville district attorney general Glenn Funk just had to bow and scrape because his 1982 Wake Forest University yearbook had a picture of him posing with frat brothers around a Confederate Flag. ...
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