[robowombat]

These statues memorialize the courage of our ancestors. Towns and cities and counties that were divided (such as Rush Limbaugh's Cape Girardeau, Mo, although he will never mention it as he adulates the 19th century GOP) erected statues to both Union and CSA soldiers. These statues specifically state they either commemorate men of a specific unit(s) or all from a certain group of men who served either in the Union or Confederate armies. Even Harvard has a separate commemorative plaque honoring by name Harvard alums who served in the CSA. I suspect more Ole Miss alums died during or directly related to the WBTS than in any other conflict absent perhaps WW2 virtually all were Confederates so a statue to these men is eminently correct. Those who don't like it can look elsewhere.

I don't know where you get the ‘yankee hatred’ bit although there is plenty of reason for it anywhere the Union army went in the deep South and I have family memories to support this. In passing these statues north and South were normally erected by public subscription. Not by use of taxpayer dollars.

Those of this wretched set of young fools that have Confederate ancestry have specifically dishonored their ancestors by this vote. I don't know how yankees see it, but in the South dishonoring one’s ancestors is right up there with dishonoring ones parents or sisters being about the worse thing one can do absent sexual crimes.

If you are a yankee stop butting in to our business, if you are from the South your words and attitudes are disgraceful.

[Monterrosa-24]

“...I don’t know how yankees see it, but in the South dishonoring one’s ancestors is right up there with dishonoring ones parents or sisters being about the worse thing one can do absent sexual crimes...”

It is just like that old joke, “Why are Chinese and Southerners so much alike? ... The both eat lots of rice and both worship their ancestors.”

[stanne]

“I don’t know where you get the ‘yankee hatred’ bit ”

I am a New Yorker who has spent six years in Mississippi, which I love, but believe me or not, it’s there, so my reaction on seeing this statue in the center of (beloved) Ole Miss was laughter

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These statues specifically state they either commemorate men of a specific unit(s) or all from a certain group of men who served either in the Union or Confederate armies.

On many monuments, there is also language celebrating the cause or principles of the Confederacy.

Even Harvard has a separate commemorative plaque honoring by name Harvard alums who served in the CSA.

I don't believe that they do. Princeton and Yale honor those who died on both sides and Bowdoin had a plaque commemorating the Confederate dead. Harvard no, though apparently there is a soldier in gray in a stained-glass window. There was an effort to add a memorial plaque to honor Harvardians who died for the Confederacy, but it hasn't succeed. If it did it would be against the wishes of those who built the original memorial to honor the school's Union dead.

Those of this wretched set of young fools that have Confederate ancestry have specifically dishonored their ancestors by this vote.

Maybe they think the ancestors dishonored them.

If you are a yankee stop butting in to our business, if you are from the South your words and attitudes are disgraceful.

It's up to you to decide, not the rest of us, but there's an internal debate going on in the South that ought to be taken more seriously.