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Another Confederate "monument" coming down?

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1 hour ago, soupslam1 said:

Hell, you could go through the entire country and find a ton of landmarks with names that the pc crowd doesn’t like. That would be a whole lot of name changing. 

 

Don't worry, they're getting there....these things take time.

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Idaho has an Atlanta and Dixie.  After the war, lots of soldiers from both sides came for the gold rushes.  Florence Idaho had its own brand of fun:

" The heightened political tensions during the Civil War marked Idaho's landscape. In Florence, for example, Main Street became known as the "Mason and Dixon line." Alonzo F. Brown was an early arrival to the gold strikes surrounding the town and recalled how residents were in a "high pitch" over the Civil War. "Main Street was the dividing line between the North and the South factions," Brown recalled. "As a result, it often happened that when morning came there were two or three dead men on the streets." There is no doubt that deaths in Idaho came about because of political as well as personal ill will, but this was no different than other places and times. It was not conspiracy. According to Brown, the culprits were full of alcohol and were a "lawless class of people" that were far removed from authority. During the Fourth of July celebration in 1862, the community came close to crumbling. "There was danger of an explosion which could cause trouble," Brown recalled. "So the cooler heads . . . suggested something that would unite both factions into a common Americanism." That something was an ice sculptor of George Washington and horse carved by German immigrant and local resident Charles Leopold Ostner. Placed on Main Street, the statue cooled tempers and solidified the community. Ostner later carved a duplicate figure out of pine and presented it to the territorial legislature in 1869, and it is still on display at the state capitol. It is clear then that Idahoans from both sides of the isle maintained loyalty to home and party even as they attempted to start anew in Idaho. This did not mean, however, that those who were politically charged were secessionist and conspired to bring the fight to Idaho during or after the war. Nevertheless, Florence demonstrated that Idaho formed during the chaotic era of the Civil War and that war had its influence on Idaho's nascence just as it had on the rest of the nation.16 "

http://idahoyesterdays.net/idahoyesterdays/index.php/IY/article/view/63/91

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