[Alberta's Child]

It's also worth noting that the Civil War harkens back to an era when people identified themselves first as residents of whatever state they lived in, and as Americans second. That whole concept is kind of neat.

Interestingly, Robert E. Lee became a Confederate general not because he was sympathetic to the Confederate cause, but because his home state of Virginia voted to secede from the Union. If Virginia had stayed in the Union, we probably never would have heard of Ulysses S. Grant.

[Inyo-Mono]

It's also worth noting that the Civil War harkens back to an era when people identified themselves first as residents of whatever state they lived in, and as Americans second.

How true. My dirt-poor farmer great-grandfather, his brothers, and cousins fought for the Confederacy, not because they owned slaves (they did not), but because they were Virginians, and their State, their home, had been invaded.

Imagine Utah being attacked by Colorado. For whatever reason. Would not the citizens of Utah defend their state?