The United Daughters of the Confederacy – responsible for placing Confederate statues across the US – will now have to pay property taxes
On Monday, Virginia’s governor, Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat and the state’s first female governor, signed into law a bill that eliminates tax exemptions for organizations connected to the Confederacy.
HB167, passed by Democrats in the Virginia house and senate, specifically removes the Virginia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Stonewall Jackson Memorial, the Virginia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, along with other groups, from the state’s list of organizations that are exempt from state property taxes.
Founded in 1894, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is a non-profit with chapters in states including California, Kentucky, South Carolina and others. The organization is largely responsible for the proliferation of Confederate statues and monuments across the country after the US civil war. According to tax filings published by ProPublica, the group raised more than $2.1m in revenue, had more than $1.1m in expenses and possessed $15.8m in assets in 2025.
Majority of their state legislature has been pro-Confederate practically since the end of Reconstruction.
Plenty of them are sick of the North and its stupid prohibition on owning slaves.
That said, nobody is talking about taking the fucking revanchist statues down. This is going to force them to reshuffle their accounting so they can pretend they don’t have any taxable land or income. But they’re still allowed to be public and notorious bigots from the Atlantic to the Shenandoah Mountains