Why am I here? I'm a right-wing conservative. If I thought Free Republic were a neo-Confederate secessionist website, I wouldn't be here, but it's not.
You won't hear me objecting to state's rights. I'm a strong advocate of limited government at all levels. Furthermore, because government usually works best when it's closest to the problems at hand, I'd like to return as much power as possible to state and local governments, limiting the federal government to its constitutional duties, of which the most important is national defense. Ideally I'd like to see most of the federal bureaucracy dismantled and its functions either eliminated or returned to state and local government, but I'm realistic enough to know that would be an extremely long process and likely requires changes in federal tax policy to make it possible.
What you will hear me objecting to is advocacy of secession in a 2012 political context. First, it's impossible, and second, secessionist comments can be picked up by leftists and twisted to make conservatives look like racist bigots. I'm not a racist, I'm guessing you aren't either, and I'm well aware the Civil War was about much more than slavery, but to even raise issues like that in a modern political context runs great risks for no good reason.
Rather than talking about secession, which is not going to happen, I'd rather focus on fighting battles that we have a reasonable chance of winning.
BS. THere is no point at which you would advocate secession. The founders would have been shooting by now. You are another lost statist tool. As long as "our guy" runs rough shod over the states its ok.
Thou dust protest to much - methinks.