So how come most of these commemorations didn't go up until
decades after the war?
Most of these tributes weren't built until the era of Jim Crow, and they largely symbolize a romanticized version of Antebellum racism, not the Civil War dead.
www.townandcountrymag.com
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center estimated that there were over 1,500 "symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces" in the United States. The majority of them are located, as one might expect, in the 11 states that seceded from the union, but as Vice aptly points out, some can be found in Union states (New York, for example has three, Pennsylvania, four) and at least 22 of them are located in states that didn't even exist during the Civil War.
How can that be possible? Because largely, Confederate monuments were built during two key periods of American history: the beginnings of Jim Crow in the 1920s and the civil rights movement in the early 1950s and 1960s.
How long after the war was the WWII memorial in DC built?...Vietnam?.....Korea?
Are commemorations of the war supposed to be erected
before the war?
Nobody but moonbat freaks gives a hoot in hell what the intellectually bankrupt SPLC has to say about diddly-shit.
Damn, you leftbats are thick as hell.

Nice try...but people were still alive from those wars when the statues were erected. The majority of confederate statues were put up during the Jim Crow 20s and the civil rights movement in the 60s.
We
see you...
The last of the Confederate troops lived into the 1950s, nitwit.
So all those statues were for him?

Come on man, those statues were not put up to commemorate the South. They were put up because white people were pissed that blacks were gaining equality.
We
see you.
The youngest of Confederate troops were in their 70s in the 1920s....Though past the average lifespan of the day, living that long was far from unheard of.
Also, Neither you nor any of the bigot assholes at SPLC are mind readers....You can stop the play acting that you are so any time now.
You have to be
trying to play as stupid as you are presenting, nitwit.
Talking history, the Democrats like calling southerners in the 50s racists. They can't explain why all the Democrat States turned Democrat in the 60s. Huh ...
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Democrats were the slavers. Democrats started the KKK and Jim Crow. Democrats were the lynchers, cross burners and segregationists.
Now if you're black and try to leave the Democrat party, Democrats target you for destruction and show blacks that Democrats still very much support slavery.
The past and future of the Democrat party is racism. And look at all the lily white Democrats speaking for blacks and screaming racist, racist, racist at other whites. And at blacks who defy them