Outstanding article.
The older I become, the less I can find justification for the slaughter of over 600,000 men, and the widows and orphans that produced, in order to keep a “Union” of people who no longer wished to be associated with each other. The economic and social ruin to the South took over a century to repair.
It seems like the case presented by Jefferson in the opening of the Declaration of Independence certainly applied to the South in 1861.
This absurdity of constantly refighting the civil war is pointless and only contributes to the waky notion of FR. The fact of life is we now live in a nation where states are irrelivant. Ideals matter.
The war of culture was/is not fought on borders it is fought on the airwaves. Want to win the culture war? crush one, and just one, outlet as an example. MSNBC is a good one. Make any advertising on that channel toxic to the point of GE selling them off. (probably to Hp, they have a history of stupid deals)