(Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post)At the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend, marchers carried Confederate and Nazi flags side by side, protesting plans to remove Confederate statues from the city’s Emancipation Park. In the 1930s and 1940s, Southern whites opposed the NazisIn the 1930s and 1940s, Southern whites who supported Jim Crow racism fervently opposed the Nazi regime. (Steve Helber/Associated Press)Why did Southern whites oppose Nazi Germany? Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that Southern whites were not particularly drawn to a regime that was anti-British and anti-religion. Many white Americans still view Confederate symbolism as standing for “heritage” rather than “hate.” That’s not true for Nazi symbols.

Source: Washington Post August 14, 2017 19:30 UTC