[Sherman Logan]

I agree.

With reservations as to whether the extreme states-rights position of the seceding states was correct. This is a matter of opinion, not fact.

However, it is a matter of fact that most southerners believed they were fighting primarily for their state and its rights, which means the term has a southern tinge, which is fair enough since they started the war.

Few of the soldiers from New York believed they were fighting primarily for NY.

[Weeedley]

The South didn’t start the war, the were just serving an Eviction Notice to federal trespassers as provided in common law.