United States Civil War/Talk

Google has 950,000/1,100,000 results, that's far from universally. 'US Civil War' is unambigious and thus better; nobody will get lost because of redirection. --Yooden

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I rewrote the first paragraph to give the actual name of the Confederate States of America. "The Confederacy" is as much a nickname as "the Union" was. It is extremely important to distinguish between "Southern States" and "the Confederacy." Several slaveholding states did not (or were not allowed by direct federal troop intervention, i.e., Maryland) secede. They were culturally and politically 'the South,' but are commonly called 'the Border states' --MichaelTinkler, semireconstructed and spatially-displaced-in-Upstate-NY Southerner

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Several slaveholding states did not secede.

Never heard of this before. Please tell us which. --Yooden