Virginia agrees to let Arlington rename Jefferson Davis Highway

[Peter1469]

Virginia agrees to let Arlington rename Jefferson Davis Highway

The new name will be Richmond Highway. I agree with this change. Jefferson Davis was the President of the CSA. I don't know why they named the road for him in the first place.

Almost 100 years after Confederate sympathizers named a major Virginia road after the president of their lost cause, Arlington County won approval from a state transportation board to rename Jefferson Davis Highway.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board voted unanimously Wednesday morning to allow Arlington to change the name of the road — commonly known as Route 1 — to Richmond Highway by Oct. 1, after lobbying by the county, legislators, business and residential groups, as well as Gov. Ralph Northam (D).


“What we just heard, through the unanimous vote and the words of the governor, is it’s past time,” said Christian Dorsey (D), chair of the County Board. He said later that the street signs would be changed no later than Oct. 1.


The county has tried for years to change the road’s name but has been stymied by the General Assembly, which held the power to block requests made by counties, officials believed. But Del. Mark H. Levine (D-Alexandria) found an exception that allowed the statewide transportation board to act, if requested by the county. Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) agreed in an advisory opinion in March, and one month later, Arlington made the formal request.


Residents in Northern Virginia began a serious push to change the highway’s name after the Charleston church shooting in 2015 led to the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds. Two years later, the violent and deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville over an effort to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee caused Virginia, home to more Confederate monuments and memorials than any other state, to reassess its schools, streets and other public landmarks named to honor the Confederacy.

[nathanbforrest45]

I knew this was coming. I also have seen where they are not rebuilding his home in Mississippi destroyed after Katrina. Keep it up boys and eventually the only people honored with be those who had been held in slavery

[FindersKeepers]

I'm not a fan of the war against Confederate ancestors. It makes no sense.

[Lummy]

I think it's reactionary, like the entire "quash the CSA" countermovement that demonstrates how close we have come to another civil war, possibly an all-out shooting war by now had the witch won the white house.

[Sergeant Gleed]

I'm not a fan of the war against Confederate ancestors. It makes no sense.

It makes perfect sense.

As Stalin (? ) said, he who controls the past controls the future.

[MMC]

I'm surprised they didn't just give it a number. Could be worse.....the Leftness could go way of U2. Where the Streets have No Name.

[Collateral Damage]

Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat it.

Trying to bury events, will not change what actually happened, and why. Having to relearn the lessons can be expensive.

[Safety]

Nobody is $#@!ing ignoring history, there's a reason we have things called museums. That argument is like telling Germany to keep the swastika flag flying because we might forget what the nazis did. We don't honor pieces of $#@! like al-Qaeda in this country, so there is no reason to honor the first domestic terrorists.

[MisterVeritis]

Nobody is $#@!ing ignoring history, there's a reason we have things called museums. That argument is like telling Germany to keep the swastika flag flying because we might forget what the nazis did. We don't honor pieces of $#@! like al-Qaeda in this country, so there is no reason to honor the first domestic terrorists.

You really hate white Democrats, don't you?

[Safety]

You really hate white Democrats, don't you?

You misspelled "conservatives".