IN Germany you go to jail for displaying Nazi flags and paraphernalia

[Donald Ian Rankin]

41. OK, so that at least I can answer.

The reason is that a significant minority of Americans, mostly but not exclusively Southerners, don't think that the Confederacy *was* "a treasonous government that supported human slavery and made war against the legitimate government of the United States." - they actively deny the "treasonous" and "legitimate", and downplay the importance of slavery.

If you want to see what they think of it, you're asking the wrong people - you need to be looking at the websites of Confederate groups to see them explain their own thinking, not asking people who hate them to explain them. Mostly what you'll get on DU are cardboard cutout caricatures, and if you take them seriously you'll understand less about how these people think than if you'd never asked.