[onyx]

Will there also be "Celebrate the Black Panthers!" month in Mississippi, for equal time?

More suited for Illinois. Yall can celebrate Communists.

Afterall, they plotted to violently overthrow parts of the United States too, didn't they?

You are truly and thoroughly either woefully ignorant or just plain obnoxious.

The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union. We merely wanted to peacefully secede.

[unspun]

The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union. We merely wanted to peacefully secede.

And the United States said, "No, your reason isn't good enough." Too bad that Ft. Sumter got in the way.

[lentulusgracchus]

The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union.

That's always been a key charge of the other side, and one which we all need to point out is a straw man at every opportunity. Leaving the Union isn't the same thing as abolishing it. That's why Southerners were called Secessionists, not Abolitionists.

You're doing a good job, helping them out there. I'm sure they won't appreciate it, though.