Considering what the northeast has done to us since then, a tragedy it ever happened.
A lot of people simply do not grasp how much evil flows into the country from the Northeast. I have come to learn it was flowing into the country during the early part of the 19th century, and was a large part in why there was a civil war.
They did not treat the Southern states fairly. They relied on them to pay nearly 3/4ths of the taxes, and they cheated and gouged them at every opportunity by using their majorities in congress to fashion laws favorable to the Northeastern people and their industries.