Summary
Army officials are exploring ways to rename Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg without violating laws prohibiting Confederate names.
Fort Bragg, originally named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, was changed in 2023 following a congressional mandate. Trump vowed to reverse the change, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fueled speculation.
One option under consideration is renaming it after another soldier named Bragg.
Costs for the initial renaming exceeded $6 million.
If only the North had spent some time on utterly crushing, and then de-nazifying (or de-magafying in today’s parlance), and then spending lots of money on re-educating the children - since many of the parents were probably a lost cause - the South after the Civil War. And putting lots and lots of laws in place to keep them from honoring any of these fucking traitors in any way.
I really do wonder how many people that set up Germany post WWII set things up in that way by learning lessons from the history of the American South…
They were not so thoroughly defeated to be utterly crushed. And you forgot that the North wasn’t too different.
That one group of people today chooses one role model from the past, and the other another, doesn’t mean anything here is about the past. Not that past anyway, Reagan perhaps.
About Germany - it was divided in two parts, one received your proposed treatment, another didn’t (the baddies were in fact given a lot of important posts and weren’t really prosecuted, also till early 70s polls showed the opinion that National Socialism is a good ideology as pretty common). One has a lot of neo-Nazis and conservatives now, another doesn’t. The one that didn’t receive your treatment doesn’t. This shows that you can’t force people to think the way you want.