Governor Bob McDonnell declared yesterday that April is officially “Confederate History Month.”  Setting aside the incendiary and offensive nature of McDonnell’s declaration, how does such a divisive  act further the interests of Virginia?

Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has quietly declared April 2010 Confederate History Month, bringing back a designation in Virginia that his two Democratic predecessors — Mark Warner and Tim Kaine — refused to do.

Republican governors George Allen and Jim Gilmore issued similar proclamations. But in 2002, Warner broke with their action, calling such proclamations, a “lightning rod” that does not help bridge divisions between whites and blacks in Virginia.

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