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Originally Posted by Dread Knot

The difference between the US and secession in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, etc, is that the in US, we drew up our own union. In Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, the French the English, the Russians, the Ottomans and the Chinese drew up borders for other peoples.

Also, the mythos of the "Lost Cause" dies hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Ca...he_Confederacy

Aye, bit like the old Stab in the Back theory after WWI. Defeat really is too bitter a pill to swallow for some.
Fully agreed on the designation of borders, and we're seeing the end result of that in North Africa and the Middle East today, the infamous (well, infamous now but relatively unknown before the Syrian civil war) Sykes-Picot agreement.
However, there are plenty of other nations that don't fall into that category, although their civil wars generally happened much longer ago. I mean, let's face it, most of Europe has been at war with both itself and everyone else in Europe at some point over the last two thousand years.