[ClearCase_guy]

Secession was the right path back then, and it is the right path now. The federal government is a tyranny which removes the powers rightfully granted to the states by our founding fathers and by our constitution. Our union of the several states was destroyed by Lincoln and replaced by a nation state controlled by Washington DC. I say this as a lifelong Yankee.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Secession was the right path back then, and it is the right path now. The federal government is a tyranny which removes the powers rightfully granted to the states by our founding fathers and by our constitution.

The Obama way is indeed a path of expansion and unconstitutional usurpations, but I don't see any tyranny from the mere 1860 election of a president. As a poster said above, it's just that Democrats have always had a hard time when they don't their way. The Founders assumed a public mature enough to accept adverse election results. The South Carolina secessionists proved unequal to that assumption.

[central_va]

I say this as a lifelong Yankee.

You are my favorite Yankee. You can move here if you want.

[RFEngineer]

” I say this as a lifelong Yankee.”

As you obviously know, “Yankee” is a state of mind more than it is a geographical matter.

[mojitojoe]

AMEN!

[golux]

Well said. I will invite you to my next cocktail party just as soon as I get an OK from the NAACP.