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[RoyGBiv]

Related, but still, an aside ...

You should see what all this mess has done to history discussion groups with a large contingent of southern-oriented Civil War "buffs."

We ("we" being those who participate in such groups) had this in the mid-90s also when the combination of the wide VHS release of Gettysburg and the popularization of Usenet via AOL resulted in an influx of people who had somehow managed to read everything ever written by William Dunning and Douglas Southall Freeman but who couldn't have named a current working historian if their lives had depended on it invaded.

It has somehow made the "question" of the legality of secession popular again.

IT'S NOT A QUESTION!

Ahem. Sorry. Frustrations.