One would think that a member of the NC GOP would be the last to defend prominent public placement of statues honoring the Confederacy. Afterall the Party of Lincoln ended slavery and changed history.
Said statues were erected by what one today define as racists. And not just any old backwoods racists, but the NC demonkrap racists, many who were college educated and controlled the entire state political machinery without interruption for more than 100 years after the Civil War. I don’t think the WASP demonkraps in NC back then envisioned (specifically or even generally) that “open borders” would lead to the GOP removal of their statues. These statues should remain prominently displayed so we can learn and remember the history, and they should always be described as statues put up by the demonkraps. The party racism still exists today despite their attempts to project is on anyone who opposes their leftism. The GOP in Sampson County made a politcal mistake in helping erase the racism in the demonkrap party.
You appear to live in the Keystone state. What possible business do you have in proceeding to tell people in North Carolina what they can and cannot display as it offends your sensibility. If the people in Pennsylvania wish to erect statues commemorating Stalin, Castro, Nat Turner, or Patrice Lumumba, they certainly have the right to. Incidentally where do you get the hubris to psychoanalyze people who have been dead for decades. Sampson County is the one rural county not in the Piedmont that generally voted Republican back to the 19th century. So many of the statue subscribers may have fought in WBTS. There are too many northern people who enjoy stigmatizing Southerners and ignorant, hayseed racists.
In conclusion. Some home truths need to be stated. Much of the reason for the violent resistance to the Union invasion was that the people of the seceded states found themselves being invaded by a large, heavily armed horde, Many of whose members could not speak intelligible English and whose officers routinely engaged in and directly participated in plundering and outright robbery of Southern civilians as well engaging in widespread material destruction of the necessities of normal life.