@farmerman,
Finally acknowledging the relicts of the confederate war is uniting the country. Trying to keep those images of the confederate war is simply racist. In the place of those statues, put the image of up of heroes of slaves escaping to the underground railroad to freedom, or other worthy benchmarks of the south freedom from slavery and later to civil rights movement. Our country's past history of keeping blacks from Africa or other countries in slavery is shameful and aught not to be celebrated.