[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

The Confederacy lost. The south lost. The Confederate army, led by generals of the southern states, lost, because those generals failed.

I never understood, and still can't understand, why ANYONE would want to display them prominently in a municipality-owned or state-owned or federal-government-owned park. UNLESS they're all lined up with a big sign at each end proclaiming it the Path of Shame.

Here's why they were built.

Confederate Monuments (click here)

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which maintains a list of these monuments, the memorials are spread over 31 states plus the District of Columbia—far exceeding the 11 Confederate states that seceded at the outset of the Civil War.

“Eventually they started to build [Confederate] monuments,” he says. “The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.”

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s.

And they were so desperate to intimidate blacks, they just grabbed any old general they could find...regardless of how inept they were in the war.