Great Americans Day?

For most of us, today is a federal holiday known as "Martin Luther King Day".  But, in several states and municipalities across the Old Confederacy it is celebrated as "MLK Day and Robert E. Lee/ Great Americans Day".  There is one state that (until 2000) even combined the celebration of three (MLK, Lee, and Stonewall Jackson) birthdays into one holiday!

Now if you know your history, it may come as quite a surprise/ ironic that anyone could possibly think that this was a good/ intelligent idea...or am I just too much of a Yankee to understand so-called "Southern Pride", the celebration of traitors to the United States of America, or how Lee and Jackson could be referred to as "Great Americans"?

IMO, to combine the birthday celebrations of Confederate Generals with MLK Day into one day is an insensitive and racist insult to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.