https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/dallas-city-council-votes-remove-massive-confederate-war-memorial-180971503/
This is the 2nd statue it is going to remove.
This Smithsonian has changed a lot since it was publishing stuff criticizing suggesting that Richmond, Virginia, which still hasn't gotten rid of any Confederate monuments, was somehow wiser than New Orleans which got rid of them all.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-richmond-has-gotten-right-about-interpreting-its-confederate-history-180963354/
When you are behind Dallas that must really hurt.
This is the town of M.E. Bradford and William Murchison. All their little dreams of neo-Confederacy Gone With the Wind!
As I have stated before, each time a statue is removed, the ones that remain seem more anomalous. With Austin, San Antonio having gotten rid of Confederate stuff, and Dallas moving forward, it won't be long until someone in Houston will decided it is time to move forward.
No major metropolis wants to feel their are more retrograde than Dallas. Houston will start moving to re-examine its memorials.
As time goes on smaller metropolises will want to look at getting rid of their Confederate statues also, since Confederate statues will stand as a mark of backwardness.
Neo-Confederacy is crumbling a statue at a time.
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