More than 2,000 Confederate monuments in southern states remain standing due to legal protections after more than 160 were taken down nationwide in 2020
More than 2,000 Confederate monuments and symbols remain standing across the country largely due to legal protections in southern states
The symbols - from monuments to building names - appear in public spaces nationwide, more than a century and a half after the Civil War ended slavery
Many monuments, a majority of which went up in the early Jim Crow era, have been removed or torn down by protesters
At least six Southern states have policies protecting monuments, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center