Reply #29: Secession is an unworkable and destructive idea. It may sound "cute" [View All]

[ladjf]

when one hears it because from the outside one could say, "they deserve it".

In the first place, the population demographics in the South does not consist of a homogeneous group
of White racists,all in the stereotypical mode that outsides might imagine. The average Southern state is divided about 50-50 in their racial and cultural views. How could that type of mix be allowed to secede? What would the other 50 to 65% do, move to a state that didn't secede. That would be partitioning and I don't think anyone would suggest that.

(My guess is that the poster was joking when they offered the suggestion.)