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The constitutional republic of zion wrote:

Early Confederate statues immediately after the war mourned Confederate soldiers who had died. However, around 1900 through 1920, the same period immediately after the ruling in Plessy Vs Ferguson, Confederate statues glorifying Confederate leaders like Lee, Jackson, and Davis were erected specifically near public buildings. The SPLC believes that this was a deliberate tactic to offer some justification for segregation by glorifying the Confederacy and its cause. Books and movies like Gone with the Wind and Birth of a Nation provided further justification for segregation by glorifying the southern confederacy, and spread ideas of the "lost cause of the South" to states never associated with the Confederacy. Again, this history was used as a basis to discriminate in states like Utah, Kentucky, Missouri, and other conservative states with a basis of racism.

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