Those monuments were erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans to honor the memory of the military and political leaders of the South. It had nothing to do with intimidation. Much of the funding for those monuments came from families who had lost loved ones in that war. To equate the South with Stalin is disgusting in the extreme.

The main reason the vast majority of Southerners were Democrat after the war is simple to understand. No self respecting Southron was going to support the republican party that had brought war, devastation and subjugation to their homeland.

The bolshevik leftists are already desecrating graves all over the South. And many of us have a huge problem with that. If it does not stop no one will like what comes next.