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"You can't wipe out culture."

Black Lives Matter razed Southern heritage.

White country star says he "would never want to be associated with something that brings so much hurt."

He defended a "Bachelor" contestant who once attended a plantation-themed ball.

An old friend, who died 16 years ago today, speaks.

"A rare old architectural specimen whose core structure may date to the 1700s is not sacrosanct in the face of reckoning."

Board of Trustees decided Wallace's apologies didn't erase his segregationist past.

Virginia House wants public universities to offer reparations.

Changing the name is virtuous. Wanting to keep it is "divisive."

"This monument of hate. . . has been a stain on Gwinnett County since it was erected in 1993."

“The [DMV] has determined that license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag have the potential to offend."

And Joe Biden can solve it.

A judge declared the monument a public nuisance.

A Republican originally proposed the idea to shame Democrats. Democrats, instead, embraced it.

The local NAACP deemed it a "hate symbol."

The monument was declared a public nuisance.

Gov. Northam: "We no longer celebrate a false version of history that honors the confederacy."

GOP Lt. Gov says Lewis represents the state's values, not Alexander Stephens.

Republican governor says Confederate heritage "is not a firm foundation for our state."

Old Dominion disavows its heroes.

Maryland lawmaker wants a song that reflects "our current values of unity, diversity and inclusion."

"Wish prohibits the listing of products that glorify or endorse hatred towards others."

Outgoing black justice calls it a "tremendous reflection of... progress.”

Blacks wanted the state's first SCOTUS justice removed over Confederate service and racial views.

Another Republican who sold out whites.

If I were a black man, I’d be insulted.

"Can a republic as fractured and splintered as ours is . . . endure? And for how long?"

Law may violate the First Amendment.

Then TR, Washington, even Dianne Feinstein! Clearly, no one is safe.

Black state senator says the choice “represents the values of today’s Virginians."

The name tarnished the school's reputation as an "open and inclusive university."

Arlington renamed its portion of Lee Highway after the couple who challenged a ban on interracial marriage.

Immigration is expected to make the state majority-minority by 2030.

Woodrow Wilson and John Tyler are in the crosshairs.

Is there an alternative?

City commission says the new names should honor non-whites.

Majority white school says goodbye to its heritage.

Biden could use an executive order to make the name changes.

He's fining officials who violate the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act.

Black police chief said black leaders "conspired and organized to destroy the monument."

Board of Trustees would change the name of Lee County if it could.

County commissioner says Confederate heritage no longer "reflects our values."

The capital of the Confederacy erases its heritage.

The West's aesthetic pivot.

Trump appointee plans to defy the President.

Old Dominion's citizens stand up for their heritage.

We need symbols that hold us together.

The old Confederate-emblem flag won't be on the ballot.

Alumnus: "While VMI has a history rooted in the Confederacy, it must have a future that’s rooted in inclusion and diversity."

Northam: "The Lee monument was built to celebrate the Confederacy and uphold white supremacy."

"Duty is the sublimest word in the language."

There are still nearly 700 Confederate monuments on public land.

What's scarier than that?

Spinelessness in North Carolina.

The "KKK leader" is Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Lefties want it put in a museum.

Three public defenders have been charged as well.

The Confederate flag will be covered and the words "Heroes of the Confederacy" removed.

The Confederate capital is now just another black-run city.

But it will focus on "diversity" in recruiting and hiring.

Rare sighting of whites displaying backbone.

A salute to the Confederacy.

Our inverted world.

The school will now be named after John Lewis.

It wouldn't be veto-proof without massive GOP support.

A majority also supports removing Confederate statues.

He also defends people waving the Confederate flag.

Southern opinion of the flag no longer differs much from national opinion of it.

Resistance works.

Hispanics and whites had similar views.

It's unlikely to pass.

Betrayed by those who ought to be our friends.

For a more complete Reconstruction.

One lone white man tried to defend Jackson. He was mobbed.

Spineless Republicans.