The Costs of the Confederacy

I can think of a lot of people and groups I'd ship to Antarctica before these folks. Some of them are scum racists. Some are flag-waving American patriots. A Confederate flag does NOT alone make them traitors. I reserve that term for some real shits in this country. Some of them are members of Congress.

Interesting and, to a point, well researched article with "the point" (seemingly) being that it a waste of money. The people that work at these various sites likely have a different take on the matter; i.e., to many, its a job. Yes, there are elements in our society with tremendously wrong-headed views about "the cause;" and/or, the generally benign nature of "the peculiar institution" of slavery as practiced in the American South; and/or, the stupendously uninformed and patently illogical belief any one race is superior to another. Ideally, many of these sites would serve to educate visitors on the realities of that period of our history and of both the positive and negative impacts thereof; and, do so in an even-handed fashion. I am a displaced Yankee (Indiana Hoosier) who has lived nearly 40 years of my life in the South (Virginia the Carolinas and Georgia) and by far the most common Confederate memorials I have come across (part of the 700 from the article, perhaps) have been County seat obelisks replete with the names of their fallen sons, brothers, fathers and husbands. That is, not celebrations of a cause but true (in memory of) memorials.

Please explain how they are "traitors"?