The surge in Confederate symbology between the mid-1950s & mid-1960s undoubtedly had a good deal to do with resistance to civil rights, but the narratives in this area are way oversimplified even as to that period. 1963 was, after all, the centennial of Gettysburg.
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They were more modest because they were small markers for individual units erected largely by subscription of the veteran members of those units - not propaganda exercises by state governments.
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