It& #39;s nuts that Americans don& #39;t regard the Confederate flag with the same degree of revulsion that Germans regard the Swastika.

To be clear, I recognize that millions of Americans do indeed regard the Confederate flag with revulsion. It& #39;s nuts that the number who do so is so low, so that some Americans think it& #39;s cool to go out in public waving that flag around as if it& #39;s a badge of honor.

Until recently, there was a freaking Jefferson Davis Park that proudly flew confederate flags just a few miles north of Portland, Oregon on I-5. https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2017/06/steve_duin_still_stubbornly_fl.html">https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2...

As someone who teaches American history in the Pacific Northwest, it& #39;s not the pro-Confederate types I have in mind so much as the many well-meaning, kind-hearted students from the west I meet who are "meh" about the Confederate flag because they don& #39;t know much about it.

They& #39;d never fly it or wear it, but they also don& #39;t fully get why it& #39;s such a big deal. They know about the Civil War, but most do not know about the eras of Redemption and Massive Resistance and Wallace& #39;s "silent majority" that followed and gave new meaning to that flag.