>>> Secession.
Why did they secede?
For a number of reasons. Do a little research. Slavery only came up after draft riots occurred. By the way slavery was wrong then and it is still wrong today. Think about that.
Why did they secede?
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Because of domestic terrorism and murders directed towards the average citizenry by the likes of Beecher, Brown etc. and celebrated and supported by many in the North; because of Northern attempts to impose trade restrictions upon the South similar to those earlier imposed by Britain upon the American colonies; because the cultural divisions between the apostate Puritan North and the anarchic Celtic South were only increasing, as they continue to do to this day.
Dissolution will come eventually, just as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was doomed at the outset.
Freedom and Secular-Puritanism are incompatible. What are the Greens, the Redistributionists, NAMBLA, unions et al. but the fully grown children of post-Christian New England? We have our Lindsey Grahams and Bill Clintons in the South to set alongside the Barney Franks and the Barack Obamas of the North, but that is because the dominant culture is the one which Lincoln and his fellow travellers built, and because concentration camps always have their kapos. But the divide then and the divide today is the result of the metastasis of apostate American Puritans - smug, condescending, bullying, dictatorial and always, infallibly, eventually murderous.
When the federal government eventually falls, it will fall unmourned and of its own weight and incompetence, as did the Soviets before them.
“God will vindicate us” - certainly we have failed in our own might.