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[Mike Goldman]

Don Marti wrote:

> > Damn Yankees.  It's not a war flag either.  It's the flag of a country
> > that no longer exists.  Just because the CSA was defeated doesn't mean
> > they didn't actually exist.
>
> The CSA never existed, any more than if I declared myself to be a citizen
> of my own new country.   It was a bunch of rebels on US territory.
> The 14th Amendment calls it an "insurrection or rebellion."

According to Lincoln and the Republicans.

But how do you explain West Virginia then?