Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Dylann Roof, the man arrested after a shooting dead nine people in an historically black South Carolina church on Wednesday, wanted to start a civil war and bring back segregation, friends claim. The 21-year-old is pictured on his Facebook profile wearing a jacket bearing flags from apartheid-era South Africa and what was once white-rule Rhodesia. He also has a criminal record and in April received a gun for his 21st birthday. Since his arrest in North Carolina, 250 miles north of the targeted church, friends have spoken out to paint a picture of a demonic character who fantasized about massacres so openly that people thought he was joking.Dylann Roof, of Columbia, South Carolina, had recently been given a .45-caliber gun by his father as a 21st birthday presentRoof's Facebook profile photo shows him wearing a jacket with flags of apartheid South Africa and white-rule Rhodesia sewn onHis black Hyundai has a novelty plate of the Confederate statesA massive manhunt ended 250 miles away in Shelby, NC where Roof was arrested shortly before noon on ThursdayIn the months leading up to the shooting, Roof worked in the landscaping business and lived near a Lexington-area trailer park, friends saidBetween 4th and 9th grade he attended six schools, and repeated 9th grade 
 Question:The _ were was an unrecognized coalition of states between 1861 and 1865.

Confederate