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The statue is an anachronism. I’ve seen it. Should have been moved after
The war way over a hundred years ago along with the ignorant ‘yankee’ hatred that remains.

It can be moved to a cemetery. The timing is bad with all of the America hating going on.

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.

The statue is a reminder that the country was a REPUBLIC and since leftist state-ist thugs want a democracy they need to tear it down. So called Conservatives go along with this re writing of history. Shame shame shame.