So why are Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol?

[Poiuyt]

The president and the vice president of the Confederacy. It seems to me they should be considered as traitors and not honored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Statuary_Hall

[Torchlight]

1. Doesn't each state decide on which two statues it will have representing it?

And those individual states ultimately decide on which statue replaces it (as was done with R.E. Lee)?

[madaboutharry]

2. They need to be removed.

This was the contribution to Statutary Hall by the state of Mississippi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Jefferson_Davis_(U.S._Capitol)

"In a response to the Davis Statue's unveiling, The Daily News published an editorial criticizing Mississippi for choosing "as her favorite son the slavery leader" Davis, "the leader of the cause which sought to split up the United States," a cause that was "based on the most barbarous cruel and vicious institution ever invented – human slavery." Commenting on the popular commemoration of Confederates, the editorial found it peculiar that "most southerners honor the men who tried to break up the Union above the southerners who played an enormous role in building the Union."

Georgia choose Stephens.

These were placed in Statutary Hall 65 years after the Civil War ended.

Sad and pathetic.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. I nominate James Brown as a replacement for Stephens (n/t)

[Sneederbunk]

4. Ray Charles was born in Georgia, James Brown was not.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. I was thinking he was born in Augusta, for some reason!

Must've been a crossed wire. Ray Charles is also acceptable, though! Or Little Richard. Or Otis Redding. Lots of better choices.

[DBoon]

6. I would nominate Frederick William Schneider III for Georgia's replacement

[rurallib]

7. they should put walls around them and turn them into things to pee on.