Just going to leave this here: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.[SUP][1]"[/SUP]
The South very well could have been independant today and the Civil War called the Confederate Revolution. To act as if the Civil War was a forgone conclusion from the start is idiotic. Anyways, even if the South did secede, with the strength of America's current military, it WOULD be a forgone conclusion without major defections
And we would definitely have a few of those defections. Think about it. How much of the military is supplemented by southern states. My state of Arkansas alone has one of the biggest air lift wings in the nation.
We'll go start out own universe. With blackjack, and ponies. In fact, forget the universe. Ah, forget the whole darn thing.
to quote every president in the past century; "our union is strong"; we have our disagreements, but there is no political will for succession.
Nope, they can't because it was stated somewhere. I forgot where, but once you're a state, you're stuck onto it.
