Report finds more than  2,000 Confederate symbols continue to stand across the U.S. in 2024 MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released their bi-annual Whose Heritage?

and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his ...

Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army. One solution ...