There are also a very large number of blacks in the US who celebrate their Confederate heritage.

Very large number? Hardly. Name two.

A great pity the south lost.

Why is that, precisely?

second point: is it "Civil War" or "War between the States"?

Actually, at the time and up thru the re-birth of the Klan in the 1910s & 20's, it was called The War Of The Rebellion. And rightly so.

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Footnote: Shelby Foote is a novelist, not an historian.-