What is the difference between an "Insurgent" and a "Rebel"?

Some of you act like "Rebel" has a negative conotation to it. That's not the case in the Southern US.
 
gmilam said:
Some of you act like "Rebel" has a negative conotation to it. That's not the case in the Southern US.
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It's not the case anywhere. A rebel can simply be a non-conformist, or somebody who wants her garden club to try planting nasturtiums instead of hostas. An insurgent specifically rebels against the government that has control over him, using violent methods.
 
Going by the way the words are used rather then the definition it seems to be that rebels are trying to cast off oppression, while insurgents are trying to create it.
 
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