A new poll shows Mayor Nirenberg and San Antonio City Council are 'out of touch' with the average Texan in their haste to remove the Confederate monument in Travis Park, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports
.A new Texas Tribune University of Texas poll released today shows that a plurality of Texans, both Republicans and Democrats, want Confederate monuments, especially those that don't honor an individual, like the Travis Park monument, left where they are.
The second largest number, 30%, say the monuments should be 'moved to museums.' 22 percent say leave them, but add 'historical context' in the form of a plaque or some other notice that explains the history of the monument.
Only 8% of Texans say the monuments should be 'removed.'
"Very few people want the monuments removed or destroyed,' Daron Shaw, the co director of the poll, told the Texas Tribune.
City Council, speedily and at a cost to taxpayers of nearly a quarter million dollars, decided to remove the Confederate Monument which had stood in Travis Park for more than a century, a monument that most people in San Antonio didn't even know existed before the debate over its future began.
The City has not revealed where the monument is being stored, or what the plans are for it, if any.