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LessAndLessIronic 2 points ago +2 / -0

Civil wars and revolutions are only different in retrospect, and only depending on who wins.

If the Confederate States were still independent we'd call what happened a revolution. If we'd lost the American Revolution, it would probably be remembered as a British civil war.