Blue and the Gray

Yes, if we were in 1991 and I told you that, in an election season 32 years later, the very phrase “civil war” would no longer just be a reference to a distant historical memory of the Blue and the Gray, but part of everyday conversation and media reportage, you would have laughed me out of the room.

His other television appearances include spots on "Taxi," "The Rockford Files," "Married...With Children," "Moonlighting," "Murder, She Wrote," and "The Blue and the Gray," among others.

In a 2011 episode of “The Simpsons” called “The Blue and the Gray,” Marge is inspired by a sprightly platinum-haired woman to dye her naturally blue beehive gray.

“It’s a good way for descendants of the Blue and the Gray to break bread and understand the war in a historical context. They’re learning American history and the war was the crucible of American history,” says Ben Jones, a former Democratic congressman from Georgia and “Dukes of Hazzard” actor who is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group advocating to keep the monuments intact.

Two hours earlier, they reenacted a fictitious battle between the Blue and the Gray, and two hours from now they’ll stand in formation and do it again, as they have for decades.