Spanish Civil War

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Republicans.

[Rob]

I would be a Republican (specifically, a supporter of the POUM).

[Jake]

Nationalists

[afleitch]

Republican, mostly due to their anti-clericalism.

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Wow, we have 2 crazies who voted so far.

[Bono]

None.
I'm not a fascist, but I'm not a fan of people who burn churches and murder nuns either.

[opebo]

...I'm not a fan of people who burn churches and murder nuns...

I am!

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Nationalists

[minionofmidas]

I would be a Republican (specifically, a supporter of the POUM).

Uh... you in the POUM? That sounds ... odd.

[DanielX]

NOTA. Both sides had serious problems.

[Max]

I would have been one of the few anti-communists supporting the Republicans. The Franco fascists were worse than the the International Brigades.

It was a great mistake of Great Britain and France not to support the Republic, so the far left, the anarchists and the Sowjet Union got to much influence.

[dazzleman]

NOTA. Both sides had serious problems.

^^^^^^

[Rob]

I would be a Republican (specifically, a supporter of the POUM).

Uh... you in the POUM? That sounds ... odd.

I strongly support their campaign against the Catholic Church (which held far too much power at the time), and their opposition to Stalinism doesn't exactly hurt. Izquierda Republicana or the UR might be a better fit for me politically, but I hold the most respect for POUM

[WalterMitty]

how come these european countries had complicated and complex civil wars?

at least our civil war was rather sraightforward...bloody, yes, but not hard to understand.

[minionofmidas]

I would be a Republican (specifically, a supporter of the POUM).

Uh... you in the POUM? That sounds ... odd.

I strongly support their campaign against the Catholic Church (which held far too much power at the time), and their opposition to Stalinism doesn't exactly hurt. Izquierda Republicana or the UR might be a better fit for me politically, but I hold the most respect for POUM

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

how come these european countries had complicated and complex civil wars?

at least our civil war was rather sraightforward...bloody, yes, but not hard to understand.

Because most civil wars are like that, and our's technically wasn't a civil war actually.

[minionofmidas]

how come these european countries had complicated and complex civil wars?

at least our civil war was rather sraightforward...bloody, yes, but not hard to understand.

Because most civil wars are like that, and our's technically wasn't a civil war actually.

Yours is pretty hard to understand, as viz. all those people who're still arguing that the disputes about states' rights had nothing to do with the defense of the peculiar institution.
What is true, though, is that except in Appalachia the sides were fairly united and clearcut.

[Q]

Republicanos.

[WMS]

how come these european countries had complicated and complex civil wars?

at least our civil war was rather sraightforward...bloody, yes, but not hard to understand.

Because most civil wars are like that, and our's technically wasn't a civil war actually.

Yours is pretty hard to understand, as viz. all those people who're still arguing that the disputes about states' rights had nothing to do with the defense of the peculiar institution.
What is true, though, is that except in Appalachia the sides were fairly united and clearcut.

Actually, the American Civil War was quite a bit more complex than the history books like to portray what with all the areas of pro-Union sentiment in the South, all the areas of, well, not pro-Confederacy but certainly anti-Civil War areas in the North (Copperheads, anyone?), and all the neutralist and borderline secessionist tendencies in the Far West (there was actually talk of the West Coast forming its own country, which likely would've dragged in much of the territories - from a paper I did a long time ago, the NM Territory might just have joined a Pacific Republic). Add to that all the plots, raids, guerrilla warfare and the like bubbling underneath the surface, and throw in a damn near continent-wide Indian War erupting in the middle of this, and no, Walter, our civil war wasn't simple at all.
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Oh, I'm not sure who I would've backed...probably one of the Republican factions, if they had any moderate ones, but I would need more details to say that.