Actually, the author of the piece on which we are commenting, Mr. Williams, chose to drag the civil war into it. Basing part of his argument on the highly debatable proposition that southern secession was justified as "self-determination."
Notably he included no explanation of how this applied in MS and SC, in both of which states black people were a majority in 1860.
They weren't allowed self-determination of whether they wished to remain in the Union. In fact, they weren't allowed any self-determination at all, being in the eyes of the law merely chattel.
As I said above, there is a legitimate argument for secession today. But when proponents want to justify secession today by legitimizing the Confederacy and by extension the slavery-based society it fought to defend, they are blowing both feet off with a machine gun.
"As I said above, there is a legitimate argument for secession today. But when proponents want to justify secession today by legitimizing the Confederacy and by extension the slavery-based society it fought to defend, they are blowing both feet off with a machine gun. "
If some feel the need to justify secession with past secessions please use the colonial secession from England.