>??? Where is secession prohibited in the Constitution?,
Secession is illegal only because the North won the war.Actually the first state to propose sucession from the Union was Mass.in about 1836.So even the Yankees looked on it as a voluntary union prior to the War of Northern Agression.
Before 1836! The New England states were very opposed to the War of 1812, as it hurt their mercantile/trading ties with Great Britain. They met it Hartford in 1814 to decide on succession, but that vote lost. The Hartford Convention
Also, this articles reeks of a deliberate attempt to portray Republicans as racists. Note how the author says white Southern Democrats became Republicans as soon as the Voting Rights Act was passed. What he fails to point out was most of the democrats were against it, and most republicans were for it. Also, the South decided long ago to abandon Jim Crow, more for any reason than it was the right, moral thing to do. Some white liberals think criticizing the black community in any fashion is racist, but pointing out bad behaviors; children born out of wedlock, relying too much on the welfare state, epidemic of drugs, etc, is a show of concern for folks. The above behaviors can be found among poor whites, too. Morally we owe it to these folks to never let such behavior be considered KO and natural.
As a native New Hampshire boy now living many years in the South (Alabama) I simply do not see Jim Crow type racism here. Relations between blacks and whites are much better here than the North, imho.