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In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.
Portions of the highway's route in Virginia, Alabama and other states still bear the name of Jefferson Davis.
On September 20, 2011, the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia voted to change the name of " Old Jefferson Davis Highway " ( the original route of the road in the County ) after the chairman of the Board, Chris Zimmerman, who was originally from the Northeast, stated: " I have a problem with ' Jefferson Davis ' ...
There are aspects of our history I'm not particularly interested in celebrating.
I don't believe Jefferson Davis has a historic connection to anything in Arlington.
He wasn't from Virginia ".

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