Confederate Monuments Are All Throughout WNC

BPR News | By Matt Bush

Published August 25, 2017 at 4:13 PM EDT

North Carolina is home to around 100 monuments to the Confederacy. Governor Roy Cooper says all should come down in the wake of the death of a woman who was counter protesting a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. But a 2-year-old state law prohibits local governments from removing the monuments without state approval, keeping many of them in place for the time being. BPR’s Matt Bush spoke with Smoky Mountain News reporter Corey Vaillancourt about the Confederate monuments that dot the mountains of Western North Carolina - including those in Sylva, Franklin, and Waynesville.

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Matt Bush joined Blue Ridge Public Radio as news director in August 2016. Excited at the opportunity the build up the news service for both stations as well as help launch BPR News, Matt made the jump to Western North Carolina from Washington D.C. For the 8 years prior to coming to Asheville, he worked at the NPR member station in the nation's capital as a reporter and anchor. Matt primarily covered the state of Maryland, including 6 years of covering the statehouse in Annapolis. Prior to that, he worked at WMAL in Washington and Metro Networks in Pittsburgh, the city he was born and raised in.

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