[murdoog]

I am offended by the continual efforts to rewrite the Confederacy into some sort of noble crusade of The-Godly-Southron-Elect against Those-Evil-Yankees-Whose-Feet-Stank-and-Didn't-Believe-in-Jesus How many people say that? I think a lot of us "neo-confederates" are simply reacting to the simplistic notion that the Civil War was a conflict between Union Good Guys and Evil Slaveowning Confederate Bad Guys.

[Poohbah]

Let the debate roll on, and it comes out.

Whatever legitimacy the secessionist cause had evaporated on 4/12/1861.