text: Tell us you know the confederates (sic) were citizens of this country? Far as I know, there was no US before the revolutionary war; we were a colony of England. I won't be surprised that you don't know "no taxation without representation" meant that the colonies had no voting power in the English governance. I assume you know the South indeed was represented in US governance, i.e. in Congress?
  Seldom have I read such a dangerous misreading of, and shocking ignorance of, history.