Lobbyists Back Teen Trying to End Texas Confederate Holiday

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NBCDFW By Clarice Silber 4/20/2019

Texas is one of just nine states with Confederate holidays

Months after the removal of a plaque in the Texas Capitol that rejected slavery's role in the Civil War, a push to abolish a state holiday honoring Confederate soldiers has returned with the backing of high-powered lobbyists. But it still faces long odds.

Texas is one of just nine states with Confederate holidays. Past efforts to either rename "Confederate Heroes Day" or wipe it off the calendar have gained little traction in Texas, where Republicans have also resisted calls to tear down Confederate symbols in the face of monuments falling nationwide in recent years.

But in January, Gov. Greg Abbott yielded to pressure and agreed to remove a 60-year-old Confederate plaque that came under bipartisan rebuke as historically indefensible. Now a Democratic lawmaker has renewed long-failed attempts to get rid of Texas' Confederate holiday, and his supporters include a teenager who made headlines in 2015 after spearheading a bill when he was just 13 years old.

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All honor is being stripped from heroes who died in battle defending their homeland from invaders.

Next watch the tombstones will be toppled of those who can no longer defend themselves.