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>In addition, when the South seceded, they did so illegally (not that there is any legal way to secede.) The land, infrastructure, homes, government institutions, etc. were all funded, acquired by or under the authority of the Union, and in seceding, the Confederates were in essence stealing the land, roads, and infrastructure from the Union.
1. Where did the Federal government get its money? Was the South not paying taxes at the time?
2. Isn't that how we got our country in the first place? By doing the same thing to the British?
You don't understand that people are proud to be associated with an institution that was willing to go to war (that it was almost certain to lose) to defend its principles?
The civil war was about states' rights. Slavery was an issue, but not the most important and certainly not the only.
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