Seems to me the people who erected those statues were the ones ignoring their past. The Confederacy lost the war. The slaves were freed. The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were passed. The statue lovers want to retreat into some Margaret Mitchell fantasy as if the last 150 years never happened. And "politically correct"is a right wing term meant to subvert reality by pretending liberty and equality are fictions imposed on those who know better.