The status quo has plenty of states, pretty much the same ones as before.
“The status quo has plenty of states...”
That’s the point. The Federal Government is pretty much nothing in and of itself. It’s the will of the States to put up opposition using the Federal Government as their agent.
What took place in the 1860’s wasn’t the War Between Lincoln and Davis or the War Between the Federal Government and the Confederate Government, it was the War Between the States. People don’t seem to get that.