>>>Sorry, guys.
>>>That's what happens when you lose a war. You have to do what the other guy says.
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>I had understood the war hadn't just ended and that "the other guy" actually includes all US citizens now... rather than loser Southerners having to do what the North says. Maybe that sort of expectation is part of what distresses them.

The war was over if the southern states could secede the union (which they wanted to do in order to keep their slaves). Since they lost, they could not secede the union - thus all those in the south remained US citizens and had to give up their slaves.

>>>March all you want and carry your torches, but that statue stays down.
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>Actually it's not down, because a local Judge applied a 6-month stay. I guess he doesn't share your absolute certainty, but I'm sure there are some choice epithets you can use to explain that.