They also managed to solicit the help of some historians, namely Shelby Foote, who claimed it would somehow diminish the historical impact of the areas landmarks. Honestly, those arguments were..forced at best. Disney was not buying those areas, and anyone who knows how careful Disney is about public relations would easily assume they wouldn't destroy them. Also, they would have brought ALOT more visitors to those areas. Something you would imagine a historian would want. The whole anti-DA thing was very, very politically charged and ridiculous.