The other states aren’t.
Extended for an additional 25 years by Jorge Arbusto and a Republican congress.
One really has to wonder at what point Reconstruction will be finished - its only been 147 years since the end of the War of Northern Aggression ended, yet somehow a mere law passed by Congress and signed by a President allow for an entire region of the country to be treated as little better than a colony in terms of self-rule.
I'd like someone to remind me why it is, exactly, that the entire South should remain part of the US? [By the way, I say that as someone who came to Texas from the Northeast less than 12 years ago, and whose ancestors were busy being oppressed by one or another Czar of all the Russias for a couple hundred years during the time we had slavery and about 40 years of Jim Crow here - IOW, I never had any dog in the North vs. South fight, but I am getting increasingly fed up with the conventional view of things as taught up North].
I would nto lose one wink of sleep if the north east wanted to leave the union, infact I;d have a party so long as they take all their liberal pansy ass , illegals and homosexuals.
They want their liberal utopia then frigging have it.
“One really has to wonder at what point Reconstruction will be finished - its only been 147 years since the end of the War of Northern Aggression ended, yet somehow a mere law passed by Congress and signed by a President allow for an entire region of the country to be treated as little better than a colony in terms of self-rule. I’d like someone to remind me why it is, exactly, that the entire South should remain part of the US? [By the way, I say that as someone who came to Texas from the Northeast less than 12 years ago, and whose ancestors were busy being oppressed by one or another Czar of all the Russias for a couple hundred years during the time we had slavery and about 40 years of Jim Crow here - IOW, I never had any dog in the North vs. South fight, but I am getting increasingly fed up with the conventional view of things as taught up North].”
What we have seen played out in the District of Corruption over the last few decades is the inevitable playing out of the outcome of the War of Northern Agression. Proponents of more and more concentration of power in DC will never consent to a restoration of state sovereignty laid out in the constitution.
My ancestors fought for the north, and my views about that conflict are now the same as yours. Although fresh out of Public schools and for a long time afterwards I originality held the opposition view.
It was only as I grew older and more experienced in the nature of men & politics that I slowly came to realize the utter contradiction and unworkability of any such doctrine.
Suppose you were to be chained to anther person for the rest of your life(which in this case would be an enterinty). Sooner or later either you or the other person would obtain a dominate position and uses that position to exploit the other for their own benefit. Then your “union” ceases to serve the proposes for which it was created and instead becomes destructive to the ends for which it was created.
This is non-consequently precisely what the Original Declaration of Independence proclaims as just cause for secession/revolution. And it is precisely why no union could ever be unbreakable, because were the bonds of union to become chains, the men under it would be disposed to become slaves.