“We guys” weren’t even a state during the civil War. “We guys” (some of my family) came from Virginia by way of Canada. I have ancestors who fought on either side of the conflict. A conflict that ended 150 years ago.
Understand that. But today’s geographical attitudes still reflect attitudes of those days in some way. Particularly where the aftermath of the North’s ‘benevolence’ can still be seen today.
This business “congress” deciding is BS and a cop out, frankly. The signees should have been able to remove themselves by voting on it themselves.
A “union” is not a union if all the participants aren’t agreeable. To suggest that Congress, an implication of majority, should have the final say so is absurd. That isn’t freedom; it is tyranny.
A conflict that boiled over 150 years ago, but continues today. A conflict even now that impinges upon the desire of states to be free of the rule of Washington D.C. and the North Eastern (and now Western Coast) elites.