"[Democrats] McEnery and Penny having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored).
United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state."
Like I said, it's a memorial to a bunch of white supremacists.
You, obviously, are not familiar with the term “carpetbagger”.
Look up Hillary.
Conservatives need to learn their history. Any monument to a “Southern” cause from the Reconstruction period or early 1900s most likely is a monument to the Democrats’ efforts to rule the South through race hatred and their brutal oppression and terrorizing of blacks. It is a disgusting period in history and it was brought to us by the Democrats. They are an evil party and monuments to Jim Crow and Dixiecrat Dem heroes should be destroyed. Now that’s not the same as monuments to Southern Civil War generals. That is completely different. But Dem segregationist politicians are a different story. That’s why I was happy when they got rid of the Jefferson Davis statues. He was a disgusting traitor.