Time heals most wounds.

And time wounds most heels.

So 150 years after the end of the Civil War, and two and a half months after nine African-American worshippers were gunned down in a Charleston, S.C., church by a racist Confederate sympathizer, we’re still waiting for more state and local vestiges of the Confederacy to be removed.

We have hope for change.

This week, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously to ban the flying of Confederate flags by that Northern Virginia city on Robert E. Lee’s birthday and Confederate Memorial Day.

And a judge in Pittsylvania County ordered the removal of Confederate flags and memorabilia from the county’s circuit courthouse. The Pittsylvania Historical Society removed the items on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, a Patrick County judge removed a portrait of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart from the courtroom in that county’s Circuit Court.

The changes represent a real evolution for that Southern sector of Virginia. Pittsylvania County surrounds the City of Danville, which served as the last capital of the Confederacy. Its president, Jefferson Davis, and cabinet fled Richmond, the longtime rebel capital, in April 1865, after Union troops liberated the city and emancipated thousands of enslaved people.

With this latest turn of events, we again ask Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia General Assembly when will they put an end to the disgraceful taxpayer-supported January holiday in the Commonwealth honoring Confederate losers Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson?

It’s time to move the entire state into the future. Let’s stop being mired in the past.