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Entry: Sept. 11, 2001: Adrift Among the Dead Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sept_11_2001_adrift_among_the_dead#4823 Post contents: Well, "The War Between the States" was indeed a "civil war"; that is, there were several "civil wars" fought between all sides of the conflict - everything from the Draft Riots in the North to the antagonism between Southerners loyal to the Confederate government and the majority that were not, as well as the various Indian tribes, especially the Cherokee, who fought amongst themselves for control of their tribe. True, "The War Between the States", in and of itself, was not a "civil war", but spawned enough civil wars to appropriately be called one. For example, of the 100 counties in Alabama, only 54 of them voted for secession, with EVERY SINGLE county in northern Alabama voting tostay in the Union, and one or two southern counties voting to stay. Southern secession was a political coup of the ethnic English plantation owners over the "backwoods hillbilly" Scots and Germans. Sent at: 2008 10 07