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Secession in 1860 would most assuredly have weakened everyone except for a few slaveowning or copperhead politicians.

It would be the same with secession today.

The President of Texas or the President of the Restored CSA won't find many listeners around the world -- or at home.

It's tempting sometimes to think that splitting up the country would make things better in one half or another.

Cutting the country in half won't make politicians more honest or more responsible, though, and it would mean living in weaker countries in a world dominated by foreign powers.

[central_va]

Look, that’s were you guys run off the rails, I would live in a country of 1,000,000 that was free as the US was in 1787. Due to sentimentality of a once great republic that gone bye-bye,you love power more than freedom.

[lentulusgracchus]

The President of Texas or the President of the Restored CSA won't find many listeners around the world -- or at home.

Why would he care? The president of the Swiss Confederation doesn't. And his people are happy.

Cutting the country in half won't make politicians more honest or more responsible, though, and it would mean living in weaker countries in a world dominated by foreign powers. (Emphasis ironically supplied -- with amazement that I had to.)

What do you think it's been like living in the South for the last 130 years?

Where have you been?