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Virginia Is Renaming Jefferson Davis Highway And Asking The Internet For Suggestions

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Black Republican

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I thought Gaf might have some suggestions:

http://jalopnik.com/virginia-is-ren...source=jalopnik_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
The city council of Alexandria, Virginia unanimously voted to rename Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway and have now set up a survey for public feedback and suggestions for what to rename the road. You probably have ideas.

Alexandria’s decision to rename the highway that leads to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Pentagon was made in September of last year, and now people can send in suggestions. One of the people in our office has already suggested The Ayrton Senna Memorial Highway.

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Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway was sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early 20th Century in response to the publicly funded Lincoln Highway, and was originally intended to stretch from Northern Virginia to Southern California. Today, many stretches of roadway carry Jefferson Davis’ name, but this survey only affects the highway within the city of Alexandria.

The Advisory Group assigned to the renaming process will make its final recommendation to the city manager on October 5. Click here to access the survey. It has fields for three suggestions and accompanying comments, but it would appear you can continue to keep submitting as many suggestions as you’d like until then.

If you could name a highway anything, what would it be?
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Bob Coffee

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Martin luther king highway would be a good choice. Although barack obama highway and rainbow road are two other good choices.
 
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Media

Member
Suggested Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, and Shirley Chisholm (first black congresswoman, first woman to run for president)
 
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Lum1n3s

Member
Emoji Movie Highway, we need to start marketing out and franchising these roads so that the county/state can earn more money.
 
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Advocatus Diaboli

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Kahoona said:
Heather Heyer Highway
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This is what I'd unanimously support if it were Charlottesville instead of Alexandria. Not that I'd at all be upset if that's what's chosen.

Similarly, it seems weird to name a highway after a living person. Obama Highway just sounds off.

I'm going to suggest Lucy Randolph Mason Highway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Randolph_Mason):

Lucy Randolph Mason was an activist in the union movement, the consumer movement and the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century.

Born near Alexandria, Virginia in 1882, Mason vowed as a child to continue her family's long tradition of community service and commitment to human rights. Her father and grandfather were Episcopal ministers. She was also a fifth-generation descendant of George Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights which served as the model for the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution.[1]

Mason sought to bring about more humane conditions for working people, to end racial injustice, and to ensure that union organizers throughout the South were guaranteed the constitutional rights to free speech, assembly and due process that George Mason had helped establish.
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Codeblue

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So mad that Lincoln got a memorial highway that they had to have their own rival memorial highway decades after they lost. The confederacy really is the ultimate case of wanting participation trophies.
 
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