“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.
Then there will be a 2nd conflict. Kennedy had it right - "those that make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable" - with the word "revolution" meaning "change."