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[abaris]

They understood themselves as Americans just like Texans who would like to secede consider themselves Real Amurica. And if the secession movement ever did effect that result, they would also, like the Confederates, be justly accused of treason against the Union.

But it's on the same lines as me saying, Hitler or Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to name only the most prominent ones, weren't Austrian. They were Austrians all right, even though they were German citizens at the time they pulled their shtick.