# Robert E Lee statue removed from US capitol **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 21, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538 "2020-12-21T13:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/1 "2020-12-21T13:28:58Z")
Probably not the last one taken out > each state gets 2 statues there ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/2 "2020-12-21T13:44:36Z")
Jefferson Davis (Mississippi) is particularly egregious. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/3 "2020-12-21T14:35:09Z")
VA is a blue state now but almost all other SE states are very red so it may be a while before others are gone. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/4 "2020-12-21T15:42:55Z")
It’s not that uncommon for states to trade them out to make room for more recent notables, sometimes not for the better. The California GOP used their Schwarzenegger interlude to replace the inoffensive anti-Confederate Starr King with Ronald Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/5 "2020-12-21T17:29:14Z")
Here in NC they are going to add Billy Graham and don’t think they have picked who has to go. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/6 "2020-12-21T19:16:31Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Jefferson Davis (Mississippi) is particularly egregious. You just want to ask Mississippians, “Is this it? The bumbling political leader of a failed insurrection and someone named [James Zachariah George](https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/james-zachariah-george)? These are the two most notables you have to offer?” Hell, maybe they are. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/7 "2020-12-21T21:49:17Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > each state gets 2 statues there Ok. I was going to ask what the hell a general Lee statue was doing in the US Capitol. That’s like putting a Timothy McVeigh statue at the Murrah Federal building. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/8 "2020-12-21T22:07:19Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > These are the two most notables you have to offer?” Hell, maybe they are. Charles or Medgar Evers would be an appropriate replacement. Beyond that, you have William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Jimmy Buffett, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Henson, Jerry Rice, and Walter Payton. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/9 "2020-12-22T01:10:52Z")
Right. And come to think of it, Mississippi ditched their Confederate-based flag this year so they may be in a mood to shake things up a bit with who represents them, too. The thing is, a lot of the states do insist in that it should be notable political or humanitarian leaders if they are going to be in Statuary Hall, so it and its satellite spaces tends to be heavy on “state founders” types as honorees. You see that whole array of basically variation on the theme, 19th-century Guy in a Frock Coat Standing Stiffly Looking Serious, and can hardly tell one from another. By contrast [Jack Swigert](https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/john-swigert-jr) (CO) is in his space suit. And [Kamehameha](https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/kamehameha-i) (HI) makes all those old stiff white dudes look very much like, well, old white stiffs (plus he’s gigantic). ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-e-lee-statue-removed-from-us-capitol/928538/10 "2020-12-23T05:49:30Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Probably not the last one taken out Well, i hear that the current President of the Confederacy will be taken out of DC on January 20th.