Virginia is trying to move on from its Confederate past, with legislators voting to eliminate a state holiday honoring Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
The bill will swap Lee-Jackson Day for Election Day as a state holiday.
Supporters of Confederate statues and symbols, with a child carrying a Confederate flag and an impersonator of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, gather at the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery on the Lee-Jackson Day state holiday in Lexington, Virginia, Jan. 17, 2020.
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