lol at this "war of northern aggression" talking point by Catastrophe.
sure, southerners were trying to secede and keep their slaves, but they were doing it PEACEFULLY. gmafb.
They did it just as peacefully as our founding fathers did when they revolted against their own people.
It's probably not worth trying to convince most people in here, so I'll just say propaganda is a powerful thing and tough to recognize when you surround yourself with like minded people. That goes for nazis as well as the victors who get to write the history books.
Compare it to the US's secession from Britain all you want, but (1) the US's reason for seceding was not as reprehensible as upholding the institution of slavery; and (2) Britain never erected statues of "honorable colonial leaders" who fought a war against Britain.
They started their own country because they were afraid their slaves were gonna be taken away. It doesn't take propaganda to realize that these people were shitheads. Go read the primary antebellum sources on the reasons for secession. John C. Calhoun and his progeny of southern intellectuals were very clear. Sometimes they frame it in terms of anti-federalism, but what are they trying to protect? Spoilies: It's slavery.
Sedition is a serious thing, and Mocat's comparison to Washington is a perfectly apt analogy. Why the hell are we honoring traitors? Maybe it would be one thing if there was some actual merit-based reason for their secession (i.e. "sure they seceded, but they had a point and a lot of good men died"), but really, they just wanted to keep having slaves.
Your argument sucks.