[KC_Lion]

What about us who are first generation Americans and are still on the fence?

My Parents came to this country in the 1970's, so needless to say, I don't have the "Civil War experience" like the rest of you do and I am still uncertain who was in the right.

Maybe NEITHER was in the right.

[Billthedrill]

What about us who are first generation Americans and are still on the fence?

Well, it's a little like being a Mariners fan during the playoffs - you get to root for whomever you like.

However you cut it, the fact of the matter is that the disputants in this debate weren't there. Honor and virtue are in the keeping of individual men and women, not in any geographic area. I love the history of the era but these threads too often devolve into children in the back seat insisting "Mom, he hit me first." I think the thing deserves a bit more dignity than that.

Flame away if you like, guys, I really don't care.

[Hot Tabasco]

My Parents came to this country in the 1970's, so needless to say, I don't have the "Civil War experience" like the rest of you do and I am still uncertain who was in the right.

I'm a direct descendent of individuals who fought for the Union and at the risk of being considered a traitor to the Union, I have to admit that the SEC football conference is far superior to the Big 10...but that will change this year.

There, I said it.......

[silentreignofheroes]

The South was Right.There , now you know.

[crz]

A lot of good men and women died as a result of politics. That is what it was really about.

One side wanted to overload the house of representatives by counting slaves as people to enlarge their representation in the house. Yet, they insisted that those very slaves, were in fact, property.

Want to know who really starated this whole thing way back before that? The monarchy in Europe.

[ansel12]

I think that it is less about which side was wrong, and more about, which side was the most right.

[BroJoeK]

KC_Lion: "Maybe NEITHER was in the right."

Most people who've bought into neo-Confederate propaganda don't even know that the Confederacy first started the war, by seizing many Federal properties, culminating at Fort Sumter in April 1861, then three weeks later formally declared war on the United States.

Before the Confederacy's declaration of war (May 6, 1861), no Union force "invaded" the Confederacy, and no Confederate soldier had been killed in battle against the United States.

In all of history, very few entities have formally declared war on the United States, but in no case has it ended well for those who did.