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A statue honouring "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, one of America's foremost white supremacists, will stay on the South Carolina State House grounds.
Republican state Rep Greg Delleney yesterday killed a resolution that would have removed the statue from its prominent spot at the front of the State House.
"He was a man of his times, honoured by the people of his times," Delleney said.
