Most civil wars look like Russia 1917 or Spain 1935. The competing sides are mixed among each other.
Unlike the first American Civil War.
Americans will benefit by realizing this.
Exactly so.
The closer parallel to the American Civil War as far as separation of populations is actually the recent Sri Lankan War, 1983-2009. The Tamils were concentrated in the north and east of Ceylon, the Sinhalese in the center-south.