A Touch of Irony

Irony always seems to be around and today is no exception.
Ever since the mass slaying in Charleston, South Carolina at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17 of this the year, the furor to minimize or eliminate aspects of the Confederacy in the South has waned but not totally subsided.
Now, the city of New Orleans has entered the scene with the city council voting to remove prominent Civil War-related monuments from some of the city's busiest thoroughfares. As can be expected, there were those for and against the idea.
But the presence of Confederate names in different places across the US is not unusual, however. It's been determined by geographers that there could be as many a 872 parks, natural features, streets, schools and various other locations bearing the names of major Confederate leaders in 44 states. Now, this is where the irony comes in. The Confederate States of America was made up of only 11 states. That means 33 other states have "embraced" an important element of the Confederacy . If you subtract the four Border States, that still leaves 29...northern states. That is truly ironic, don't you think?