I am writing an essay about the civil war. Are "the south" and "the north" proper nouns or common nouns?

Chances682018-12-21T00:17:46Z

Confederacy and Union are more accurate and scholarly titles.

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All hat2018-12-20T13:19:53Z

If you are using them to identify a group of people, or a political movement, etc., then they are proper nouns. If you are using them only to indicate direction, "the army moved north", then they are common.

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Mercy2018-12-20T00:10:43Z

proper in that connotation

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Anonymous2018-12-19T18:01:38Z

Royalists and Parliamentarians would be more appropriate. The Civil War was not divided on North/South lines so it is meaningless to use those terms.

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