I'm not seeing much of a reply about anything. Non-Sequitur seems to be the only one dealing in actual thoughts of some kind.
......nor any reply about the revolution that created the federal union.
But they'll drag in the word "perpetual" when it suits them, without bothering even to pretend to understands what it really means (which no, does not mean "permanent" or refer to an irrevocable consent). And they won't stick around to discuss the significance of the disconnect between the requirements of the Articles of Confederation for their amendment, and what actually happened when the Constitution was ratified.
To hear the yankees, all every southern white boy wanted was to have sex with their slaves......
Oh, wait, I thought we wanted to whip them and kill them and hang them from trees, on fire. Or something like that. Which is it? I'm confused.
..... - certainly the predominance of such would be ample evidence of the lust and rapine that ALLEGEDLY occurred.
Perhaps that would suit the South-bashers, too, since then they could join racial contempt to their list of regional and cultural ones.
Wonder how many of them are unacknowledged subscribers to the "one drop" doctrine so integral to the ideology of the Klan?
This from the crowd that drags the word 'secession' in when describing the colonial rebellion from the crown.