But the citizens of South Carolina in 1862 (and now) sure viewed the Confederacy as a different country.
“But the citizens of South Carolina in 1862 (and now) sure viewed the Confederacy as a different country.”
You don’t get to be a new nation unless you have the firepower to make it stick. The colonials of 1776 declared themselves a new nation and eventually made it stick. The confederates tried the same trick but couldn’t defeat Lincoln’s invasion.
Today they’re just a people descended from that history. Some of them anyway. Nikki Haley is doing her part to wipe out the memory of that past. It’s not her past anyway, her roots are in India.