Quote:
Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The successionist arguments were about new states, who gets the west essentially, not about the south, the North didnt need cotton and New Orleans, they wanted Kansas and Ohio (the frontier at the time) and the promise of Gold in the Rockies and the great plains
|
These days it's about remaining global hegemon. How do you split up the american military, for example?
No state would be able to secede without the rest initiating a war, IMO.