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Lately there has been so much frustration with the last election and the direction of our country that some Trump supporters have been talking about “secession.” Many conservatives and libertarians are asking if it makes sense for certain states to leave the union the way South Carolina left in 1860, after the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States.
Whether it makes “sense” or not, we can be assured that it will not happen. Although the South Carolina state legislature voted in November of 1860 to initiate the process of secession, no state legislature would do that today. This is because most modern state legislatures, even conservative ones, do not have many members who are angry enough at the federal government to support seceding from it...............
Citizens living outside of ultra-progressive urban areas do not accept
what is going on in large cities. Surely, the thinking is “I am not one
of them. They are different from me. We do not agree on basic things,
like what laws should govern human conduct.”..........More crime is not the only difference Americans notice in large cities.
There are also different laws regarding decency, civility, and
cleanliness. Unfortunately, manners and traditional customs are rarely,
if ever, practiced............Urban areas have been failing financially for many years...........How much longer will productive taxpayers living in rural and
suburban communities agree to subsidize large cities?................The secession of 1860 will not happen again, but a different kind is already taking place............To Read More....
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