Nixing Dixie
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"It's sort of like we've been labeled racists," said Tommie Phillips LaCavera, president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. "This is something our ancestors did over 100 years ago, and we're being punished for what they did. It has nothing to do with us." Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama could empathize with LaCavera: his family tree includes a grandfather who served as a Confederate surgeon and a signatory to Alabama's order of secession from the Union. But Heflin changed his vote and sided with Moseley- Braun last week. His forebears "might be spinning in their graves," he said, but "we must get racism behind us. We must move forward. We must realize we live in America today."
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