Quote - Perhaps we'll talk about the Civil War sometime.  The English Civil War or The American Civil War -- or both.  Take your pick.

 

One effect of the American Civil War on the US mindset is that we try to force all our concepts of civil wars into that framework, just like we try to think of revolutions in terms of our own. But the American Revolution was really a colonial rebellion, as opposed to, say, the class-based French Revolution, and the American Civil War was really a geographically-based secession (similar to the Vendee in France), not religiously or ethnically-based as so many are.