[vetvetdoug]

If secession is legal then why the beef about West Virginia?

If secession is legal then why was the South called traitors?

[DoodleDawg]

If secession is legal then why was the South called traitors?

Point of view. One man's traitor is another man's freedom fighter.

[jmacusa]

Because they took up arms against a duly elected government in order to preserve an economic system based on the ownership of one human being by another for the purpose of using said human beings as slave labor.