This wasn't even questioned. These people really do believe garbage.
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Apparently FDR put up a bunch in the lead up to WWII in an effort to unify the country (so when the populace wouldn't resist when the started drafting young men to go fight another war in Europe.)
Vicksburg surrendered to U.S. Grant on July 4, 1863.
They didn't celebrate July 4th again until 1944, a month after the Normandy landings.
Yeah, he probably needed to make sure the South was on-board.
And then on top of that, don't forget Huey Long. A Radical-Left Populist, who was probably a kind of Proto-Fascist, and was a clear threat to Roosevelt controlling the "Solid South".
"Fascism is right wing" they say. I say: Explain Huey Long.
They don't know what fascism, right wing, or Huey Long means. They're just making the correct sounds (or typing the correct letters) that get them rewards, like a dog barking on command. Don't try to reason with them unless you have evidence that they're not an NPC despite acting like one.