What part of America are you from? I'm from the home of the the Confederacy and it is very common for town squares or outside of courthouses to have bronze statues of confederate soldiers. Most would say this is as much a memorial to the humans that lost their lives than to support the Confederacy herself. Some would disagree.

Ah, the the truth is that those statues or monuments are a VERY recent thing. Up into the 1930s, Cromwell was still a very controversial figure. Invoking him during a political argument was nuclear. The royal family in the Victorian era saw Charles I as the "Martyr King".

And despite any slight warming to him since the 40s, he is still considered the equal to Hitler in Ireland.

The CSA is certainly controversial, but 100 years of pop culture rehash of and nostalgia for Dixie has smoothed over, all-too-easily, the real evil aspects of the place to the point where it is ok to indulge in the more benign cliched parts of Confederate culture without being seen as a direct supporter of stuff like slavery.

This submission has been removed because it is soapboxing, promoting a political agenda, or moralizing. We don't allow content that does these things because they are detrimental to unbiased and academic discussion of history.

If you wish, you can rephrase your question in a more neutral way and resubmit. I'd suggest focusing on either Cromwell or the Confederacy, and not starting with the comparison.

Did you mean 'reverence?'