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Originally Posted by George Anderson
Absolutely correct!!! We call it the War for Southern Independence.
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From the standpoint of The United States of America, it was an armed rebellion. I guess it's a matter of perspective. Some jibber-jabber about "States' rights," but the seceded states only cared about one "right," which was the ability to legally own other human beings as property. Understandable, perhaps, since the cheap labor was the cornerstone of their economy at the time. Let's just be glad that our society is more moral than that now.
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Originally Posted by LU1900
Sorry about my title
Hope no offence for any one
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No need for an apology, Patrice. When a nation is divided into factions that kill each other over who's going to control its destiny, that's the essence of a civil war. That the two factions occupied separate, relatively well-defined geographic areas is moot.