And I'm sure some Germans felt (and perhaps even still feel) that the nazi flag is a symbol of German pride? The pride that they feel for that part of their her

And I'm sure some Germans felt (and perhaps even still feel) that the nazi flag is a symbol of German pride? The pride that they feel for that part of their heritage is still unmistakably antisemitic and hate-filled. I would argue that the number of Germans who feel that way is so much less than the number of southerners who feel that way only because of just how strong and universally nazism was rolled back. In the south after the Civil War, things stayed far more similar to how they had been pre- and mid-war