So again, where did the money come from? The Confederate Fairy?
And the reformation of the Old South/Confederacy as "The Lost Cause" with all the nostalgia and romance and none of the murder and torture of slaves...Quote:
2. Most of the monuments were built 1900 - 1920s. What coincides with this time? All the Civil War vets were dying.
Nothing more patriotic than secession...Quote:
3. A renewal of patriotism because of the Span Am War, WWI.
Yeah, mainly racists and Confederate apologists as a way of showing how they restored hegemony after defeat and Reconstruction....Quote:
So what if Lee didn't want them? He was dead and groups of people wanted statues of him anyway.