It’s not really their business.
I guess you didn't get the memo on that. It's no longer uncontested that North Carolina did lose more men in the Civil War than the other Confederate states (New York having lost the most of any state). Possibly they did lose more proportionately than other states, though that isn't clear either.
But where are Northerners even mentioned in the article? From what I can see, a Greensboro fellow crashed into the statue, and the UDC and the city aren't that into replacing it. No "yankees" involved.
Some people online praise the decision and others deplore it. Given that the whole Internet involves people not minding their own business, it's hard to see why the line should be drawn here.
It's also interesting that there may not even have been a town there in Civil War days, so the statue itself was a little revisionist or "imperialist" when it was put up.
I was referring to my ancestor’s side...I am unaware of the Union state with most loss and did not clarify..
It would stand to reason given the population it would be New York and given Union losses overall (as troops) that it would be bigger.
As for outsiders and southern statues...
Here in Franklin, an older Jewish woman from Los Angeles moved here and bought an historical home about 1999...she was immediately offended by the CSA memorial that had been on the square for precisely 100 years after replacing a smaller marker...Chip...named for the piece of floppy hat missing from a weather event....usual square CSA oblisk with trooper on top facing south.
She immediately tried to take all sorts of legal action and petitions to have it removed.
The townspeople wondered if she also intended to dig up the 1500 Confederate dead at McGavock cemetary...then the irony was pointed out to her that she indeed lived in a former Plantation home herself...their former town home on West Main.
Anyhow...she may have picked up a handful of supporters but got nowhere and eventually left to move on to more windmills as ardent progressives often do.
If you have an example of southerners going north and remonstrating northerners to ignore their history or “how we do things in Montgomery”, then please..by all means share
As you can see...apparently some jewish lady from Los Angeles offended the cultural sensibilities of poor ole Wardaddy in his hometown a dozen years ago. Therefore...northern conservatives on FR are guilty of the same behavior.
He's been pushing various permutations of this pusillanimous slander for a long time. No surprise here.