[WhiskeyPapa]

The "so-called CSA"? Sorry, I don't get your point. What else would you call it?

What President Lincoln called it -- "the insurgent area".

Walt

[docmcb]

"The insurgent area"? Please, that strikes me as just silly. I understand that Lincoln didn't want to confer legitimacy on the Confederacy by using its name -- but what reason do you have for following that practice now, more than a century after the fact? Are you afraid the South might win after all? No matter what we say today, Lee still surrendered. Sometimes being too much an interested party to a controversy interferes with understanding the controversy.