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I guess a big difficulty in the way of secession could be that it was denied to Texas in the last 200 years. This attitude carries a certain momentum. That might hinder blue states from seceding as well. What do you think?
I'm sorry, but fuck Texas and it's "denied secession."
The American South plays victim every chance it can in its lost cause mythos and "look at how poor picked on we are" when they spent years pushing federal requirements like the Fugitive Slave Act on the non-slave states and got pissy when they couldn't overtake the numbers of slave states over non-slave states so they wanted to take their ball and go home, but the North wouldn't let them lea... no... wait... they fucking shot first. "War of northern aggression" indeed.
The mess we're in is the culture that created the civil war originally can't get over themselves and have mythologized themselves into the victims when they were the assholes causing the problem.
-Signed a southerner who is FUCKING sick of hearing how Texas never signed to rejoin the union every time he's near at least three Texans.
ok sorry i'm not that familiar with US history, i was just pointing it out.
What about the current administration gives you the impression historical precedent matters anymore?
fair point that you're making here.