re: Haley declines to say slavery was cause of Civil War

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However, secession =/= civil war

and for the record it was not a "civil war" as the South wanted no part of controlling the North,

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True and true.

What happened in 1861 was one nation divided itself into 2 nations and then proceeded to have a conventional war.

A civil war is like Lebanon or Sarajevo where neighbors fight neighbors.