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Originally Posted by Tribesman
I would have thought that since "war of northern aggression" is a term pushed forward by some dumb racists in the late 1950s, that anyone with an iota of sense would avoid it like the plague.  |
The expression "War of Northern Aggression" was coined to make the Civil War sound more like a war between two independent nations instead of an actual civil war. It always rankled the South that they were never recognized as such at home or abroad.