Let the Left deceive themselves. If they don’t compromise and are willing to let the United States break up because of their own partisan idiocy and intransigence, then I would consider supporting secession.
Charles Blow is too busy deceiving you. He mentions in passing that Mountain West States are included in this secession wavelet -- and it's only that, a wavelet -- but when it comes to saying which States specifically had seen secession petitions, Charles turns to The Daily Caller, holding them at arm's length to mumble a little Big Lie:
According to The Daily Caller, “Petitions from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas residents have accrued at least 25,000 signatures, the number the Obama administration says it will reward with a staff review of online proposals.” President Obama lost all those states, except Florida, in November.
Thus he leaves the false impression that "it's the Confederacy again" -- those people -- Simon Legree and his lash, ogrish Klansmen in robes and hoods, riding by night to oppress the Righteous Poor of the Earth.
In fact, this is another typical-liberal use of a hate-puppet caricature of the people he is talking about, in order to demonize a much broader and very different population of American conservatives.
It's hate literature, when The Daily Caller and Blow tell it like that.