Brett Banter

A good buddy of mine tells a story of life in Wisconsin in the 1990s that goes like this. The day after the impeachment hearing for Bill Clinton, newspapers across American slapped it across their headlines on the front page. Almost all talked about impeachment of some kind. The headline in the newspaper in Madison? "It's time to move on." That basically meant they wanted to keep coddling Bill Clinton.

I felt like that today after taking a Survey in the State about the Civil War. The State has been doing a great job of chronicling the 150th anniversary of the Civil War this year with almost daily updates on moments and life from 150 years ago. The first question today was how relevant is the Civil War to your life? Almost 54 percent said very relevant, and almost 88 percent said it was relevant in some way. Relevance is a subjective word. Relevance to one person is irrelevant to others. Tough to say what the responders mean by relevance.

But regardless, 88 percent is a large number so it shows something. Not sure what, but something. More telling was that almost 50 percent feel that a state will secede again from the Union, 54 percent felt the wrong side woe, and maybe not surprisingly 88 percent said they were white.

It's time to move on.