Absolutely - as long as we acknowledge our whole history. I'm RI born and bred, and although I left for good over 50 years ago, I'm still a Rhode Islander at heart ... a follower of Roger Williams, proud that RI never ratified the 18th amendment to the Constitution, proud we speak of the 'Civil War', ashamed that my college degree had a basis in slave money, etc.. And I like driving or riding through Bristol, when I get the chance.
But Harvard is based on Puritan money, and the Puritans executed Quakers (and later, Massachusetts Quakers didn't look very good to Herman Melville). Connecticut and Yale were founded by people who though Massachusetts was too liberal....
There's a lot of good in US history, but there's immense darkness as well. No surprise ... history is created by imperfect beings.