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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they lost and we won. America has learned a lesson in the last few years about letting racist, fascist losers regroup and we're done doing it.[/quote]

If the Germans could come to terms with having been actual Nazis, we should be able to come to terms with fact country is blighted by history of slave-owning racists.   Tear that stuff down - most of it went up in era 1910-1970 anyway for reasons that are obvious.[/quote]

The obvious reason for the statutes put in in the early part of the 1900s was not in reaction to desegregation or the civil rights movement.  You're conflating two different motivations.  [/quote]

DP:  Although you might want to label it something other than the “Civil Rights Movement “, which is usually associated with a time period starting in the 1950’s, there were focused efforts aimed at increasing civil rights for Blacks following the Reconstruction era.  One pivotal event  was Woodrow Wilson’s election in 1913. Wilson mandated racial segregation throughout the federal government, eroding many of the economic and social gains that many Blacks made following the Reconstruction era.  This was also one period when groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy arranged to put up many statues. A similar peak in these types of activities occurred around the mid-1950’s following the Brown vs Board of Ed decision. So, yes, the increase in statues venerating the Confederacy was a direct response to periods of increased civil rights and other types of gains for Black Americans.

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/how-woodrow-wilsons-racist-segregation-order-eroded-the-black-civil-service/[/quote]

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