It will never make sense to me why literal, text book definition traitors had memorials. The DoC did the best PR work in history to make that happen.
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The Daughters of Confederacy had a lot to do with the statues. Most Confederate monuments were put up during the Civil Rights Movement (a coincidence, I'm sure) in an effort to push the Lost Cause theory. Have you ever heard someone say: "I don't support slavery but I do support their right to secession."? That's the Lost Cause.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
Please forgive the formatting. I'm on my cell.
It would seem even more monuments were erected during the Jim Crow era. Graph
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_monuments_and_memorials
It's so much worse than that IMO. They committed treason to take away their own state rights because rich slave owners convinced them to. The south doesn't just memorialize this, they celebrate it.
Good. Fuck you traitors.
there is nothing to memorialize about that ignorant, fascist regime
Good. It never should've been there in the first place. Fuck every single one of those Confederate traitors.
Until someone named Billy Bob supports a taliban monument I'll never see the support of the confederacy as anything else but racism.