IMO States need to dissolve the Federal government by refusing to hold Federal elections or just flat out secede. There is no other solution. And no, secession does not mean war. Only the reaction to it may or may not cause war, the act itself is war neutral.
All you need is the legislatures of 3/4s of the states to agree to dissolve the United States and it's done.
“You have no right to ask, or expect that she will at once profess unbounded love to that Union from which for four years she tried to escape at the cost of her best blood and all her treasure. Nor can you believe her to be so unutterably hypocritical, so base, as to declare that the flag of the Union has already surpassed in her heart the place which has so long been sacred to the ‘Southern Cross.’ “
General Wade Hampton
Actually Lost Cause = Trying to defend the Southern rebellion of 150 years ago, blaming everything wrong on Lincoln, and pretending that the confederacy would have somehow, miraculously turned out different.
You're going to actually come up with some?
IMO States need to dissolve the Federal government by refusing to hold Federal elections or just flat out secede. There is no other solution. And no, secession does not mean war. Only the reaction to it may or may not cause war, the act itself is war neutral.
If the act involves trying to screw the remaining states six ways from Sunday by repudiating debt and obligations, stealing property, and threatening their economic well-being then the secession act itself is a hostile act.