A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, on Monument Avenue in Richmond on June 28. (Steve Helber/AP)On June 3, 1907, a new attraction was unveiled in Richmond: a monument to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during its brief existence before being snuffed out by Union forces in 1865. But there’s another burst of new memorials indicated in the SPLC’s data: during the civil rights struggle in the early 1960s. What’s particularly interesting about that SPLC data is that, although Confederate memorials are predictably located in Southern states, they aren’t exclusively located there. No state has more memorials to the Confederacy than the state that was home to its capital, Virginia.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2017 16:55 UTC