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By Matt Viser November 23 at 6:00 AM
Starting her second year as a Mississippi state senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith arrived at the State Capitol in Jackson in 2001 to file one of her earliest pieces of legislation. Senate Bill 2604, as she proposed it, would have renamed a stretch of highway to the title it had in the 1930s: Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway.
While the president of the Confederacy did have ties to the state representing it in the Senate before resigning when Mississippi left the Union he had no known ties to her district.
The bill died in committee.
It is one of several instances in which the now-U.S. senator would embrace a pride in the Confederacy and its aftermath that is coming under new scrutiny in the wake of her comments that she would sit with a supporter in the front row of a public hanging remarks that she defended as an exaggerated gesture of friendship and that others said alluded to lynching.
In 2014, she donned a Confederate hat and posed with a rifle, writing on her Facebook page that the Jefferson Davis homestead in Biloxi is a must see.
Mississippi history at its best! she wrote.
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sharedvalues
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Garrett78
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