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The Backlash New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Faced After Removing Confederate Monuments

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In his New York Times best-selling memoir, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, documents his controversial decision to remove four prominent Confederate monuments that had stood in his city for more than 100 years. Here, he opens up about how that decision led to a backlash among white voters.

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