[Trump20162020]

The push follows the rapid fall of Confederate memorials across the South in a victory for activists who view them as celebrating slavery. In the nearly eight months since white supremacists marched in central Virginia to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, cities across the country have yanked dozens of Confederate monuments.

Is this even true? I feel like the media made a meme post-Charleston and Charlottesville and acted like a few statues in the bluest cities in the South (New Orleans, St. Louis, etc.) being relocated was indication of some widespread movement, while the ones in towns and rural communities never got touched. There are over 700 of them still throughout the South.

The author says "dozens" but a lot of it was completely inconsequential crap like that plaque in Madison, WI, or a private property rock in California whose owner asked it to be removed temporarily to avoid vandalism. Feel like the author is being really disingenuous here.

[bgill]

The uber lib University of Texas removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis two years ago. Last year, they removed Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Gov. James Stephen Hogg and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan because they were symbols of white supremacy and neo-Nazism.