As the fight to remove Confederate symbols from state flags heated up in the 1990s, their focus shifted to protecting them. The Louisiana division sued -- unsuccessfully -- to stop the recent removal of New Orleans' Confederate monuments. You're not likely to see most SCV members on the news protesting to preserve Confederate monuments. As protests around contested Confederate monuments become more heated, the SCV has taken great pains to distance itself from the white nationalist movement. Amid growing protests of Confederate symbols earlier this year, Richmond's first black mayor convened a commission to find ways to add context to the monuments.

Source: CNN August 18, 2017 23:37 UTC