You may be right about that, although if it happens now, it would likely result in only 2 nations, one Constitutional Republic, and one Socialist Workers Paradise. I have also written that there is a distinction between the secession that the south tried in the Civil War, which could not be founded on a failure to follow the Constitution, and our current situation, in which the Federal government refuses to follow the rules set forth in the Constitution and exceeds its authority.
This has happened since at least the New Deal, it has just lately gotten to the point where we despair of restoring the Constitution through the political process. In states where the people still do want to live by the rule of law, instead of under the thumb of all-powerful judges and federal bureaucrats, they can and should claim that breach of the Constitution justifies the state in refusing to follow the Fed's dictates any further. I don't advocate immediate secession or civil war, just laying the foundation for like-minded states to begin the process of restoring the Constitution. I refuse to live under a socialist authoritarian state.
Eloquently and precisely stated, brother. Encore!