That’s why the UK could leave but the southern states couldn’t leave the US. Might makes right.
Texas can..
“That’s why the UK could leave but the southern states couldn’t leave the US.”
In seventh grade history class, back in the ‘60’s, I asked on what grounds Lincoln went to war with the South. It made no sense to me that they couldn’t leave the union. (Setting aside slavery, which the history book pointed out was not the cause.) I was thoroughly raked over the coals by the teacher. (He was from the WWII generation.) I finally reasoned that the war must have been a response to the attack on Ft. Sumpter. But that was very unsatisfying and I have never read a good explanation of the legal reasoning.
We lost but gave ‘em a good four year scrap. Well, that was in reality but it may have been modified or omitted for schooling recent generations. My father told me his grandfather returned from the war missing a leg. I asked what he did once he got back home. My dad said,”He sat on the porch a lot!”...duh. Guess the internet in the country was bad way back then as well....