You are missing the point. Many discussion on the Internet about secession are because Liberals and Conservatives see each other as traitors. This country is headed toward a Second Civil War and so people are reexamining the reasons behind the South's secession, or at least its attempt thereto. How many Liberals see Lincoln as a great man, but after Bush's reelection were advocating the secession of the Blue States. If Hillary is elected President, how many Conservatives will advocate secession? Secession discussions aren't as much academic discussions regarding 1860-1861, as they are about whether it is a viable option today.
Interesting as that is, I would disagree. These arguments have been going on forever. Southerners are stuck on it, and Northerners love to stomp them when they bring it up.
#####Secession discussions aren’t as much academic discussions regarding 1860-1861, as they are about whether it is a viable option today.#####
Well, you’re probably right that we’re heading for another secession crisis, if not multiple ones. The culture wars and the 1965 Immigration Act have assured it. I think it was Sam Francis who coined the term “anarcho-fascism” to describe the type of society Western nations are becoming. Government gets bigger and bigger, more and more controlling over the productive elements in society even as it “liberates” the destructive impulses. So Christianity is increasingly marginalized, speech codes are enacted, things like having a Civil War coffee mug on your desk become a thought offense. Meanwhile, efforts to curtail homosexual acts from being committed in public restrooms are considered to be oppressive.
In such an atmosphere, Political Correctness becomes all-consuming as multi-culturalism balkanizes the nation. At some point, someone will want to get out. Either conservatives, who find themselves outvoted, overtaxed, and culturally marginalized will try to leave, or leftists who think we aren’t “progressing” fast enough toward “utopia” will pull out, or a racial enclave will form in some place like California and they’ll want to leave.