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Related: About this forumA majority in N.C. want to keep Confederate monuments, according to a new Elon Poll
ELON Nearly 60% of North Carolina residents say they prefer that Confederate monuments remain right where they are, according to a new Elon University Poll.
The survey, published Thursday, also found that a growing number of people want these statues and memorials removed from public spaces.
The new Elon Poll of nearly 1,400 N.C. residents found that 58% want Confederate monuments to stay in public spaces. Another 42% want them removed.
In November 2019, when the Elon Poll asked the same question, 65% wanted these monuments to remain while 35% favored removal.
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tirebiter
(2,587 posts)TexasTowelie
(116,809 posts)from my point of view without actually crunching the numbers.
TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)It should be up to the owner (municipality, county, or state) that the land belongs to. A city that owns the land the statue is on should not be forced to keep a statue that its residents do not want.
If the rest of the state wants to be racist, treasonous, deplorables, they can take the statues and put them in their parks.