Looking at the many pictures from Charlottesville, it is amazing how many Confederate

[jimmy the one]

25. a century has passed

yardwork: The Nazis learned a lot from Southern Confederates.

Change that to 'neo nazis' & I'd agree. Racism was more than less a prevailing thought in the early 1900's, so hitler didn't need much help from america.

All through the 19th century the white supremacist ideology was honed in the U.S.

Indeed, even Abraham Lincoln felt african americans were substandard to white america. Well, how could they be on a par when they came over in chains to a new land, new culture without even knowing much of the language? Like putting an elementary student in a college geometry course. Of course slaves would be 'substandard' in educational levels, when they were deprived of the ability to even advance much past the basic alphabet.

Eugenics, phrenology, the concept of a hierarchy of "races" with some being superior over others. Laws against miscegenation - we were the incubator.

In the 1920's in washington DC, the ku klux klan marched in parades down constitution & independence avenues to the capitol, and were cheered by throngs of people. The kkk was mainstream america then.
These clowns today don't realize a century has passed.