Since, the power of the US Federal Government, relies upon US the people, you are correct.
A woman enters into marriage with a man who becomes increasingly controlling and tyrannical. She says she wants a divorce, and leaves. He hunts her down, beats her almost to death, drags her back home in chains, and hobbles her so she can never leave again.
And the Northerners wonder why we will never forgive or forget.
The greatest among the Founders were from Virginia: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mason. They would cry to see what the Federal government has become, and it started with the Civil War.