[Pelham]

VDH needs to read Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South and give up his half-baked Marxist analysis.

The only similarity is the talk of secession. What's going on here is no more the same as South Carolina in 1860 than it is of New England flirting with secession in 1804 and 1814.

[dragnet2]

No, there are several similarities. Another of which is those states you listed never seceded, nor will CA.