The German people are rightly ashamed of their Nazi past. In Germany, it is neither socially nor politically acceptable to glorify their nation's role in World War II, nor to deny the atrocities they committed. The overwhelming majority of Germans accept and admit that their nation was on the wrong side of morality and history.

And yet 150 years after the onset of the American Civil War—a war the South fought to preserve and expand the institution of slavery—many Southerners still proudly celebrate the Confederacy, and mourn its defeat.

Huh.