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Precisely the reason to cal it Secession - let’s get used to calling a spade a hoe

That's the mistake the South made last time. Although the phrase didn't exist then, they go into the face of the Northern states. Grabbed all the federal assets, and tried to coerce states like Missouri and Kentucky that voted against secession into the Confederacy. They laid claim to all the Western Territories, even those north of the Mason Dixon. They fired on Fort Sumter even though the garrison commander had told them that he would have to surrender without a shot in three days due to lack of food. It made war inevitable, which considering the South's confidence in their own superiority didn't matter a bit to them. Four years later at Appomattox some of them might have wished they had given the antiwar northerners a little more political cover in 1861.

There is a time to spit in a man's face, and a time to just take your ball and go home. You can have independence or revenge. But getting both without a lot of destruction and bloodshed is unlikely. And don't forget this time Sherman will have nukes.