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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Southerners began honoring the Confederacy with statues and other symbols almost immediately after the Civil War. ... But two distinct periods saw a significant rise in the dedication of monuments and other symbols.

The first began around 1900, amid the period in which states were enacting Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise the newly freed African Americans and re-segregate society. This spike lasted well into the 1920s, a period that saw a dramatic resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, which had been born in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.

The second spike began in the early 1950s and lasted through the 1960s, as the civil rights movement led to a backlash among segregationists. These two periods also coincided with the 50th and 100th anniversaries of the Civil War.[/quote]

LOL!  You are ignoring other issues.  Around 1900, the Confederate soldiers (husbands, fathers, grandfathers) were dying in droves.  That spurred the memorials from the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  You are leaving out that part.  Jim Crow had nothing to do with it.  Segregation had been in existence long before 1900.

When was the WWII memorial built?  About fifty years after the war was over.
Look at the PBS program on Vietnam.  Again, almost fifty years ago.

And, yes, the second spike did coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Civil War.  That does not mean it was a backlash.  We are hearing a lot more about WWI lately than we used to.  Why?  100 years.

Yes, the Civil War was fought over slavery.  But, most of the soldiers had no slaves.  They were fighting for their homeland.  Most probably never even thought about other causes.  It is that simple.

Was it right?  No.  No one is honoring the Confederacy.  They are honoring the men they loved.  People--not a cause.

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If you were taking about memorials to individual Confederate foot soldiers, or memorials to the Confederate dead, that would be one thing. But these are statues honoring the generals who, like Lee, owned slaves and understood exactly what they were fighting for.

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