I remember being really shocked when my son went to school in Baltimore and there were Confederate statues everywhere:
An annual survey by the SPLC finds that 168 Confederate symbols, 94 of the monuments, were taken down across the U.S. in 2020, virtually all of them in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing.https://t.co/5sJqCVJCOK
— NPR (@NPR) February 24, 2021
Once they dispose of every copy of Ku Klux Klan members D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods’ film “The Birth of a Nation” there may be progress.
I don’t think you should have been surprised. Remember, Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon line and the cannons a top Federal Hill were pointed towards downtown to keep the locals in line.