Exactly!
Just speaking for myself, I don't consider myself much of a "defender of the Confederacy" -- because I don't think that many of the peculiar institutions of the Confederacy were or are morally defensible.
But I definitely consider myself a defender of a State's Right to secede from the voluntary Union of States -- in theory, for any reason or no reason, if that State's citizens' so elect; but certainly if the Central Government has become a tax-mongering Socialist Tyranny. (Are we there yet?)
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system... but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe
“(Are we there yet?)”
That,Sir
Is the million dollar question!
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.”
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson,would say (we are there)!