More Than Half Of North Carolina's Counties Have Confederate Monuments

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2. There's one in my county.

It's a tribute to the soldiers who fought bravely in a war for a cause they believed in, rightly or wrongly. My mother's family was split, with some fighting for the North and some for the South (about 50/50). The funny thing? They weren't slave owners.

As long as a monument honors the soldiers, and has no racist writings or isn't held up as a racist banner, then they should stay. That flag, however, has to go and never come back. I don't think we fly it here, I don't ever remember seeing it, but I don't get out much so I may have missed it. Plenty of private citizens with it, and if they want to show themselves for the haters they are, then I won't argue with them.