For the two world wars the U S Military needed a number of new large bases to train recruits, which then included many African-Americans who were by then allowed to enlist or were drafted.
Land in the south was much cheaper so the U S Military located those bases in the south.
But the local southerners opposed this move. To pacify the southerners the U S Military named the bases after Confederate generals, even though those Generals were incompetent.
Why will Trump not re-name those bases?
Here he is saluting the rotting corpse of the Godfather of the Confederacy: President Andrew Jackson.
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