"It was a rebellion" against a TYRANT & against a small group of social/financial/intellectual/business elitist DAMNyankees, who wanted to continue to keep the south/southerners permanently subservient to northern interests.
face it, N-S, "your side" was that of the OPPRESSORS;the southerners were the FREEDOM FIGHTERS, however much you may wish that the truth was otherwise.
free dixie,sw
493 posted on 04/17/2008 7:12:37 AM PDT by stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)