The consequences remain, not the least of which are the constantly occurring outrages that are the result of the horribly written, and extortion ratified, 14th amendment.
This also says nothing about the social devastation that has been the aftermath of the Civil War. It was that conflict that birthed our existing FedZilla and it's disdain for states rights and it's annoyance with constitutional law.
I don’t disagree. Yet I always, for myself, come back to the circumstances of the forming of said “union” wherein the signees entered freely into a union that contained no mention of the inability to remove themselves from the union if they so desired. A “union” is by choice, and its perpetuation should be “by choice,” not by armed conflict to forcibly retain the constituents.