There has been a push across Southern states in recent years to address the issue, particularly after the mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C.

New Orleans’ City Council voted last year to remove its Confederate statues, though the effort has been stalled in court.

Davis, in particular, has been targeted. The University of Texas at Austin is moving a statue of Davis from a prominent position on campus.

Last week, Alexandria’s City Council voted unanimously to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway. The council also said it would seek to remove a statue of a Confederate soldier in Old Town.

The removal of Confederate statues is complicated by a state law meant to prevent localities from moving or altering war memorials. However, it’s unclear how far the ban goes in limiting what local governments can and can’t do with their statues.

This year, Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoed a bill that would have clarified that the law protects statues built before the ban was passed in 1998. The question arose after a Danville judge found that the law did not apply retroactively as part of a case involving a Confederate flag previously flown over the Sutherlin Mansion, known as the last capitol of the Confederacy.