New report shows 1,728 Confederate symbols remain in U.S., 110 removed since 2015

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Source: AL.com, by John Sharp


State and local governments have removed at least 110 publicly-supported monuments and other Confederate tributes since the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C.

But 1,728 Confederate symbols - monuments, school and city names, bridges, holidays, etc. - remain. Of those, 121 are in Alabama, according to an analysis released Monday by the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

"We've seen a remarkable effort to remove Confederate monuments from the public square, yet the impact has been limited by a strong backlash among many white Southerners who still cling to the myth of the 'Lost Cause' and the revisionist history that these monuments represent," said Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project.

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The SPLC doesn't advocate for the destruction of the monuments, but would prefer seeing them moving into a state archives or someplace else where they need to be taught in context.

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