Denali and Buckeye State

: Alaskans of all political persuasions cheered the decision to return the mountain to its initial, Native Alaskan name of Denali, while both Democrats and Republicans in Ohio bemoaned what they saw as disrespect for one of the Buckeye State native sons – President William McKinley, who was elected in 1896 and assassinated in 1901. * Obama renames Mt, according to MSNBC. McKinley* The decision wasn’t the first to trigger a national conversation about the propriety of such renamings or displacement of public monuments. McKinley, the highest mountain in the United States, proving that even in this era of political polarization, some issues still go beyond party affiliation. The same week that McKinley became Denali, the University of Texas was removing a statue of Jefferson Davis from a place of honor on its main campus. Of course, the Texas-sized elephant in the room remains the large statue in front of the State Capitol, honoring only the Confederate war dead, on which Davis stands alone at the top. It was deemed inappropriate to continue honoring the former head of the Confederate States of America, a man who did his part to trigger a war to maintain chattel slavery that ultimately cost hundreds of thousands of lives. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.