don't see Germany or Japan removing memorials to their war dead from WWII. Should that be required? Should the Vietnam memorial monument be removed. The actions of the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam had very troubling elements.

However, I would venture to say that most people would not want memorials from past wars, no matter who were the allies and who weren't, would want those memorials removed.

Are monuments memorials? That I think is the distinguishing question

It's a tribute to the soldiers who fought bravely in a war for a cause they believed in, rightly or wrongly. My mother's family was split, with some fighting for the North and some for the South (about 50/50). The funny thing? They weren't slave owners.

As long as a monument honors the soldiers, and has no racist writings or isn't held up as a racist banner, then they should stay. That flag, however, has to go and never come back. I don't think we fly it here, I don't ever remember seeing it, but I don't get out much so I may have missed it. Plenty of private citizens with it, and if they want to show themselves for the haters they are, then I won't argue with them.

NC was the last state to join the Confederacy -- very reluctantly. By the end of the war, one third of the free men of NC (white, black, and Indian/Native American) would be dead, another third wounded, many losing arms or legs. Casualties far greater than any other state.

perhaps roughly comparable to Virginia. The 1860 population of NC was about 993K with about 331K enslaved; I think that gives a free population about 662K and a free male population around 331K, so the confederate dead may total about 10% of the free men.