The idea that there are still parks and places named after Civil War Generals from the South

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56. The reason is simple, we never forced the traitors to repent for their sins

In fact, we let them come right back into power after the war ended.

The Civil War solved two things. It ended slavery and it put to rest the question of whether or not states can secede if they don't like what the federal government is doing.

What we should've done is keep the south under military occupation for another decade or two, and killed a few hundred more members of the Ku Klux Klan until they gave up. Anybody who was a political leader in the Confederacy should never have been allowed to return to a position of power again. Instead we just allowed the south to go back to their ass-backward society that they had before the war.

The result was 90 years of Jim Crow and likely an eternity of celebrating Confederate leaders.

Germans don't name parks after Nazi generals because when we occupied Germany we forced them to tour concentration camps and in some instances dig up mass graves. We shoved it down their throats that the Nazis were evil and that they were responsible for allowing this evil to happen. It took a few years, but they finally accepted it. And today Germany is an extremely progressive society.