The reaction to the current trend toward removing statues honoring confederate generals and other soldiers is not unexpected. There's a certain mindset that gets passed down from generation to generation, and - to some extent - taught in classrooms. Some southerners refer to the Civil War as The War of Northern Aggression. They look to the past with wistful eyes of times gone by when plantation owners and their "workers" did what was common at the time.
But of course - the truth is harsher and shines a light on the reality of the times. "Heritage" and "States' Rights" boil down to white people owning black people. There's just no denying it. The southern slave states didn't want to give up the free labor - their economy depended on it. And so - they took up arms against the U.S. government and the U.S. military.
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