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Originally Posted by tvbound
You are dead on. True and factual history has absolutely no correlation to some statue or monument on public property, especially those erected decades after the actual event. Those things were put up solely to intimidate blacks and to help push Jim Crow laws, which is why they are mostly a southern thing. Not to even mention, since when should this great country - celebrate traitorous losers?
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What kids learn nowadays is revisionist history, and now CRT, apparently. Statues commemorating great leaders and icons were not erected to intimidate but to preserve and honor those who sacrificed for causes they believed in. The South was in too much pain and disarray after the war to think about statues. Those are usually things you do as a society in hindsight not to mention being able to afford to make such things at a time when the South was reeling from the after effects of the war.
As was already mentioned on here, the Union army rampaged through the South without mercy. They were not gentle or kind to the conquered which I'm sure contributed to the lingering resentment of Southerners and a stubborn resistance to change as mandated (there's that word again) by the victors.