North Carolina governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday seemed to change his mind on whether Confederate monuments should continue to stand in his state after a statute was toppled in Durham on Monday night.
“Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights. But history is not on their side,” Cooper wrote in a statement. “We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America fought in the defense of slavery. These monuments should come down.”
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