This is exactly right Blue!  It took a lot of republican votes to pass the civil right legislation under President Johnson.  After that, the "Dixiecrats," switched to the republican party.  Lincoln is turning in his grave knowing that is happening to his party.  

Also, those statues/momentos were erected in protest to the civil rights act and during the Jim Crow era.  This is an insult to people of color, put those icons in a museum.