[Leatherneck_MT]

It's officially called the war of Yankee Aggression.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

So can I assume that since you want to honor Confederate ancestors and place an emotional stake on "heritage" issues, you'll be supporting the bid for reparations for slavery? Will you also be addressing the reparations for the living victims of official segregation (which only ended 40 years ago)?

Or will you want to put up flags and monuments to greatly honor your ancestors, all while claiming that slavery is ancient history?

You can't have it both ways.

Besides, all fun aside, you need to consider what the ultimate effect of Confederate independence would have meant for North America - we'd have all been European vassals in the end. Two weak countries, manipulable and poor.

[Non-Sequitur]

It's officially called the war of Yankee Aggression.

Only by you sothron types. It could quite properly be called "Jeff Davis's War".

[sweetliberty]

"It's officially called the war of Yankee Aggression"

I don't know where the term "War of Northern Agression" originated. I grew up in the south and only ever heard it referred to as the Civil War or the War Between the States. A few months ago a local talk radio station posed this question and opened the lines to callers, most of whom were raised in the south and not one had ever heard the term "War of Northern Agression". It seems very popular now. Maybe someone here could explain its origin.