Here are some of the best (lame) excuses so far:
-states cant secede because of the power grid.
-China will invade us.
-There will be a riot in a city somewhere.
-There will be chaos(like the state governments don't even exist)
It is getting funny.....
The rest of us live in a world where things are way, way more complicated than that. For starters, think "nuclear weapons" and "alliance with the US."
the excuses I have seen on Free Republic making it somehow impossible for a state or group of states to form their own country as impossible are laughable.
Maybe to you. You and your kind are willing to wade through seas of blood to get what you want. And you don't even understand that the goal is unattainable -- that nobody's following you.
The country is already mixed together enough -- North, South, East, West -- that it's hard to separate out states or regions. The kind of solidarity the 19th century slave states had is impossible nowadays.
People are also a little less blood-thirsty than they were a century ago, and that's not entirely a bad thing.