They want the monuments to stay

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Polls show the majority of people want the Confederate monuments to stay.
What I'll bet the polls don't say is why they were put up.
People are ignorant. Some willfully.

The Real Story Behind All Those Confederate Statues
KEVIN DRUM AUG. 15, 2017 8:51 PM

Yes, these monuments were put up to honor Confederate leaders and soldiers. But the timing of the monument building makes it pretty clear what the real motivation was: to physically symbolize white terror against blacks. They were mostly built during times when Southern whites were engaged in vicious campaigns of subjugation against blacks, and during those campaigns the message sent by a statue of Robert E. Lee in front of a courthouse was loud and clear.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story-of-all-those-confederate-statues/

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1. These should be local decisions: the residents of Truknutz can keep their "historic stonewall"

if they like -- but NOLA still gets to make its own choices about its own statues

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2. You know what? Too bad. They're anti-American.

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3. Who else would want monuments to the biggest clustfuck loss in their history?

Who else would want monuments to the defeat of their treason and sedition as they fought for fascism?

There are literally more monuments to these defeated racist sexist bigots than there are to those who won the war. That says something about their thinking.