A: Decades of unrest, resentment and economic turmoil.
But the troubles that followed the real Civil War don't hold a candle to the trouble that follows a Civil War reenactment.
You've never see such horror, such degradation, such pure Hell, until you've seen what happens when a group of men, who just pretended to participate in Pickett's Charge, get together, get drunk, and start comparing who was more fake brave.
Brother battles brother, father battles son, and, if the margaritas are strong enough, and the men chant loud enough, you might even see a mother and a daughter go at it.
That Applebee's will never be the same.