[Non-Sequitur]

“There appear to be more haters of the South these days. I was young during the centennial of the Civil War (or War of Northern Aggression) and there wasn’t the ill will that you see today.”

So you complain about South haters and use that tired old term "War of Northern Aggression"? Don't you just love the irony in that?

[Pelham]

There’s no more irony in ‘the war of northern aggression’ than in ‘the late unpleasantness’, ‘the war between the states’, ‘the war for southern independence’, or any other of the many terms applied to ‘the civil war’.

You are certainly one of the more energetic south-haters. A regular energizer bunny. Are you an independent, or do you attend meetings with other south-haters?

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

So you complain about South haters and use that tired old term "War of Northern Aggression"? Don't you just love the irony in that?

I agree with Non-Sequitur's point.

Many Northerners opposed the US Federal Government's invasion of an independent nation, the Confederate States of America. They even staged draft riots and so forth in order to protest the Federal Government's determination to conscript them into killing their fellow Americans.

A more fair and reasonable term would be that favored by my old Political Science professor, "The War of Federal Aggression".

The "North", after all, was by no means wholly united behind the Federal Government's determination to invade the Confederate States of America.