Quote Originally Posted by Sgt Schultz View Post
SJW Interweb hearsay.

1. Monuments were expensive. In the era just after the war most places could ill afford to build them when they were trying to rebuild their infrastructure and industry.
So again, where did the money come from? The Confederate Fairy?

2. Most of the monuments were built 1900 - 1920s. What coincides with this time? All the Civil War vets were dying.
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...

3. A renewal of patriotism because of the Span Am War, WWI.
Nothing more patriotic than secession...

So what if Lee didn't want them? He was dead and groups of people wanted statues of him anyway.
Yeah, mainly racists and Confederate apologists as a way of showing how they restored hegemony after defeat and Reconstruction....