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    #31
    Originally posted by Playa View Post
    You'd think they might consider renaming their town too. After all : "Stephen F. Austin made this clear in 1824: “The principal product that will elevate us from poverty is cotton,” he wrote, “and we cannot do this without the help of slaves.”









    Most of these statues were erected in the late 1950's and 1960's after CONGRESS voted to recognize Confederate soldiers as veterans of the US armed forces


    That's correct. And in the 50s and 60s, many of the battlefields became the property of the national park service to preserve them from development. Hundreds went up in that time frame as cemetery and battlefield markers. I've argued with twits that say the statues were put up as a white supremisist move to promote segregation. That's BS. When these battle fields became national monuments, the government put up statues. To both sides.

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