pretty unusual sentiment for a southerner, do you have a personal perspective?
It would have been more accurate to say I spent my childhood in TN. And yes I sat through history lessons where the teachers called it the war between the states or even maybe(long time ago) the war of northern aggression. I don’t believe though that being from any particular region dictates how you land on this issue. Put simply, John Brown attempted to start a rebellion among the slaves. They had more of a right to rebel than anybody in the world did or does(except for peoples being subjected to genocide) and certainly the south is way down on the list.