Here’s a simple thought experiment to ask all of your confederate sympathizing friends, if you actually have any left at this point. What if, immediately after the Civil War, the Union government had gone into virtually every little and large town throughout the defeated confederacy and raised a statue to Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman in all of the town squares and in front of every courthouse? Just how long would those memorials have remained standing after the Union troops had left? And if by chance they survived into the present, how would the current residents feel about them?