re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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That's why it's called the war of northern aggression.

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No, it isn't.

It's called that by some because of revisionist bullshite. That's why Southerners didn't start using it until the 50's, when segregation was the goal. The South got their asses beat where it counted, so they tried to rewrite history by repeating nonsense. It stuck with ignorant people and the lobbying of the education systems in the South.

Now it's repeated by their ignorant children and grandchildren as if it's always been around and as if it's fact. It isn't, and it never will be. No amount of historical negationism will change that.