In the grossness of its overreaching stupidity, this analysis illustrates many arguments I've made re: monuments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/16/the-whole-point-of-confederate-monuments-is-to-celebrate-white-supremacy/ …
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Most of them were constructed in the interim of 1890s-WWI where the South had to justify its loss in its domestic stature...
No one seems to notice that the Confederate statues were going up at the exact same time as the Lincoln Memorial.
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Look at Union monuments erected at Gettysburg: 7/9 state memorials were put up between 1889 and 1925.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monuments_of_the_Gettysburg_Battlefield …
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It also strikes me that this was a period when many public beautification & edification works were constructed. Libraries, parks, statues?
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