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Seeing as how the Confederacy was very Southern and not too fond of the rest of America, why did they call themselves "The Confederate States of America" as opposed to something like "The Confederate States of the South" or "The Confederate States of Dixie", etc?

by /u/_Fruit_Loops_ in /r/AskHistorians

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