First of all, that's incorrect. I do now live in Nashville. We relocated recently for my wife's education, and I've got a driver's license for TN and everything, so maybe you should have looked harder at my post history if that's actually important to you in understanding anything being said here.

Second of all, again, it wouldn't matter if I didn't live here - my point is valid regardless, which is that nobody who knows the legacy of the confederacy should be satisfied with confederate monuments on public display in the community.

Here's what I'll suggest for you or anyone who thinks that these are just "some guy on a horse" that's beautiful enough to warrant preservation - if you love the statues so much, you and your friends can take them and place them in a museum where they can be displayed alongside some kind of plaque that explains more thoroughly who each of these guys are and who they were, the good and the bad, in whatever way you see fit. And you can charge admission to the museum to fund the preservation of the statues. Heck, if people love your statues so much, you might enough make a profit on admissions enough that you can donate a more broadly appealing monument to replace the confederate one that was relocated to your private museum. Something that demonstrates a more modern shared value, like how cool offroading is, or whatever your favorite hobby is.