You seem confused, there's a difference between losing side of history and losing side of a singular election. Clowns that continue to celebrate the confederacy and Nazis are on the losing side of history. Society has moved on.
Obviously not true based on Charlottesville.
R.E. Lee fought for the Confederacy because he was Virginian ... not because he adhered to or believed in the ideology of the Confederacy.
I think of myself in my identity as a Georgian before I think of being an American.
I mostly think of myself when I consider my identity ... not the geographical or political unit in which I reside.