A new statewide survey shows more than half of Arizonans don't want to remove a monument to Confederate soldiers now located across the way from the Arizona State Capitol.
The poll of 400 likely 2018 voters found more than 50 percent of respondents said the memorial should definitely be allowed to remain, while 26 percent said it definitely should be removed.
The survey comes as Democratic Representative Reginald Bolding is leading an effort to remove not just that monument in Wesley Bolin Plaza, but similar markers and memorials on state property.
"The monument was put there in 1961, right in the middle of the civil rights movement, not to honor Confederate soldiers but as a way to really use that symbol to let African-Americans know that they should not have equal rights," Bolding said.
The survey did not ask about the fate of other markers, including the Jefferson Davis Memorial near Apache Junction, which was vandalized earlier this month.