It's called an agenda. He's pushing one. If they admit to the legality of secession, it makes their war one of aggression against innocents.
MOST of the unionist lunatic fringe on FR are so nearly culturally illiterate that they don't know that they have been DUPED & made FOOLS of.
in point of fact, the damnyankee social/intellectual/academic elites would do no more than wipe their feet on the unionist lunatics that dwell on FR and LOL at them, behind their backs for being NAIVE,FOOLS & USEFUL IDIOTS.
free dixie,sw
It's worse than that -- then they have to cop to having abused the Republic for what, 140 years? Rhett says they'd been at it, gouging on taxes and spending the national credit-card balance for 30 or 40 years before the Civil War. How much do you think reparations and compound interest for their big Gilded Age party would run?