Not sad at all. If Americans viewed themselves as citizens of their state and not wards of FedGov™ life would be much better and we would be freer. I, like Lee,Jackson and Davis, believe in the republic, you don't. You believe in centralized authoritarian government.
"Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever."
Jeff Davis, President CSA
You’re arguing with the great Virginian of them all.
Good luck with that.
You’ll do about as well as your forefathers did arguing with Abe Lincoln.