[cowboyway]

myth of a separate "Southern nation".

What planet are you from? Are you so brainwashed that you can't admit that there was a Confederate States of America?

Or are you just stuck on stupid.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

There was a regime that called itself the Confederate States of America. There are a lot of presumptuous regimes in world history that aren't nations. The CSA was not a nation. As Confederate North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance admitted:

"The great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people."