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New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures

posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

butthurt writes:

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

coverage:

• Washington Post
• The New Orleans Advocate
• WWL-TV (has statement from city government)
• ABC
• New York Magazine
• Newsweek
• The New Orleans Advocate
• Chicago Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• Times-Picayune
• Reuters

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• Reason for defeat of South Reason for defeat of South (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:52PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:52PM (#504020)

  No, the reason the South was defeated was because the North had a 2 to 1 population advantage over the South.

  http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/ [civilwar.org]

  The North also had more food than the South:

  http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2011/04/starving-the-south-how-the-north-won-the-civil-war/ [gratzpa.org]

  And the North was a bigger industrial power so they could manufacture the weapons and machinery of war at far greater scale than the South.
  It didn't help that nearly all the war was fought in the South, either. Add a naval blockade against the Southern coasts, and there was no hope of replenishing Southern supplies from friendly countries (such as Britain might have been).

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• Re:Reason for defeat of South (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:54AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:54AM (#504088)

  the North had a 2 to 1 population advantage

  3 to 1, if we count slaves as 3/5 of a person, as the Constitution says.

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