[C19fan]

I'm a Yankee living in VA and do not mind the Confederate statues at all. Although I think the statue of Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond is a bit weird since he was not a Virginian. That should be torn down and replaced by a statue of George Thomas a native Virginian and one of the best Union generals.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anything that honors any white person should be demolished.

White people bad. “People of color” good.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The illegal aliens and Yankees are ruining this once great commonwealth.

[sockhead]

From the article: Though a Quinnipiac University poll last summer found Virginians evenly divided on the governor’s decision to remove the Confederate flag from state license plates,

This is a misleading line. Makes it sound like Virginia standard issue license plates all had the Confederate Flag.

Virginians can choose specialty plates. I think there are about 200 options and one included a Confederate Flag.

I'm surprised Jeff Davis Highway (Route 1) has not been re-named. In my area, surrounded by big Civil War battlefields, we have Robert E. Lee Grade School. My polling center is at Battlefield School -- bad name for a school.

[DNME]

I’m from Massachusetts and I have no problem with Confederate statuary or the Stars and Bars.

Confederate troops fought bravely and well, with leadership that was often better than what the Union fielded. Slavery sucked but the issues of states’ rights and secession are very much alive today.

I pray we never again see such a conflict as divided us before, but if such a conflict arose I’m not sure which side I’d take.

[ohioman]

Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy, who capital was in Richmond. It makes perfect sense for his statue to be in Richmond. Of course, the left will not stop until all Confederate soldiers have been dis-interred and cremated with their ashes dumped into a nearby river.