Nearly every historic statue, monument, street and building name across South Carolina would be protected from removal or changes under a proposal approved Wednesday by the state Senate.
The bill approved 31-7 would also ban QR code stickers that could be scanned by a cellphone to get additional information about a historic figure, something supporters of the codes said could be used to put the actions of Confederate or segregationist figures enshrined in glowing language decades ago into a more modern perspective.
