[southernsunshine]

It wasn’t about Northern authority or a problem with the North per se. It was about Federal authority. It just so happened that the Federal authority was located in the North.

[GonzoGOP]

It just so happened that the Federal authority was located in the North.

They had never had a problem with Federal authority when they were the ones controlling it. The Southern Democrats had routinely used federal authority to enforce the fugitive slave laws. Clearly trumping the states rights of Northern States. The problem came when massive demographic shifts indicated that they would be a permanent minority in the country after 1860. And thus the federal power they had previously wielded would from then on be wielded against them. Their decision was completely logical (Why play a game you cannot possibly win) but the high moral cause against Federal power by the South is a bit hypocritical.

[antisocial]

I was being sarcastic and thought it might be obvious.