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Jim Crow and Lost Cause bull . The Army desegregated (more accurately, was desegregated by amendments to the Selective Service Act) starting in 1940, so I guess they had a reason to suck up to sore loser southerners squicked out by black troops. Fort Hood opened in 1942.
The military officials in charge of naming the posts, including Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, set only the vaguest of rules: The names should honor officers who had a connection to the region and who were “not unpopular” in the area, and they should be short, to save “clerical labor.” Beyond that, the Army seemed not to have cared much. In some cases, officials actively sought to name camps after Confederate commanders if Southern divisions were to be housed there.https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...erate-generalsWilliam Sturkey, a history professor at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says the military left much of the decision-making to the local — and, of course, entirely white — authorities. In an effort to build local goodwill, it allowed base names to be selected by small-town government officials, businesspeople and, in some cases, by the local chambers of commerce.
DeSantis loves the confederate losers more than he loves liberty.
