It was the United States of American against the Confederate States of America. The Confederate states removed themselves from the union, not the continent.
Besides that, Southerners have a lot more right to the name American than a bunch of knob head communist yankees.
A Southerner wrote the Declaration of Independence. A Southerner wrote most of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
If the South wasn't still part of the Union today, the northeast would be just another dictator ruled communist country with a wall along the border with the South to keep it's oppressed citizenry from fleeing to the Confederacy.
Where is secularism rooted? The northeast.
Where is same sex marriage legal? The northeast.
Where are most union thugs located? The northeast.
Where is the American Communist Party located? 235 West 23rd Street New York NY 10011
If anybody should quit calling themselves Americans, it's you damn yankees.
Well said!!!