By your non-dismissive attitude, it appears that you seem very adept at making "friends", have you considered a move to Boston? It might befit you....
Have you ever read the 10th ammendment?
Yes I have and I believe the nation would be a better place if it was respected. But the 10th Amendement only grants the states powers not prohibited by the Constitution and Article 1, Section 10 prohibits acts of sovereignty by the states.
Secession, the act of disintegrating and weakening our country, was a terrible and idiotic idea in 1860 and a worse idea in 2009. The Civil war cost America nearly 900,000 lives and opened wounds that didn't heal for over a century. It weakened and damaged our country; all for the greater glory of a bunch of nit whit romantics who couldn't read the Constitution (see Article 1, Section 10).
Secession would weaken each breakaway region. At a time when our largest enemy has over four times our population and people who hate our faith and our freedom control most of the natural resources our economy depends on, dividing ourselves up into petty, competing fiefdoms would be a formula for absolute disaster (see Roman history).
Besides, this IS NOT a regional conflict. Conservatism is an ideology not a place. There are conservative people in every corner of the country, no matter how dominant the leftist may be in that particular area. By alienating those people you weaken the conservative movement (and questioning their loyalty is one sure way to alienate them).
Right now conservatism needs leadership and unity. Idiotic 19th century romantic concepts of sovereignty provide neither.