First, “War of Northern Aggression” my ASS we started it and no amount of us (or rather lost causers) bitching and trying to claim otherwise and continue living in a alternate reality is going to change that.
Second, the war was to keep a increasingly more backassward system in place even as it became increasingly more obvious such a system is doomed to failure and the only reason why the Southern elites (because they directly benefit from such a system) tried to revolt and keep it going was because they were petulant manchildren who decided through a temper tantrum in the form of a violent revolt could stop something they knew was dying well beforehand and thus much of their power with it.
And third, the very fact that so many southerners are still so butthurt over our defeat EVEN AFTER DAMN NEAR 160 YEARS LATER tells me that our so-called “viable Free Dixie” wasn’t so viable after all and frankly didn’t deserve to be free in the first place.