These are southerners doing this, as crappy as that sounds. It is as if they are repudiating their own history out of a desire to be politically correct and not have anyone call them bad names.
It is astonishing and repulsive to me.
It reeks of Orwell’s “Memory Hole” and the Soviet practice of making someone an “unperson”.
Sickening.
I failed to cite your remark in my post and for that I apologize. In particular, the "memory hole" to which you refer from 1984 is most apt in this case. Scrubbing Robert E. Lee, a genuine hero, from the calendar is but one step removed from making him disappear entirely.
My other post notes the Christianity of Lee, which is foremost among the reasons why I admire him. On a more personal level, as a child growing up in the 1940s in a Christian home, Lee was held up as an example for avoiding strong drink. His famous quote was hammered into my brain by both my Texas-born mother and my Virgina-born grandfather:
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.