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what would happen if a state (or several) wanted to secede from the union today?
i mean, it caused a war in 1861, but what would happen if a state (or a group of states) wanted to secede from the union under the current circumstances now that slavery is out of the picture? would it start another civil war? or would Washington just not care and let it go?
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- ?Lv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
Great thought. What if some states decided that Washington had abandoned the original intent of the US constitution?
My hope would be that all 50 states would join the secession, leaving only Washington DC to try and defend itself and its military - industrial monopoly.
Then we could set up a national government in Omaha, I mean, they lost the college world series...
- David MLv 49 years ago
Would it start a war - probably. Somebody will try to enter the new country, get stopped or arrested, and Navy Seals will come and rescue them.
Read the secession documents from the Civil War, and the complaints voiced then are pretty much the complaints now. Very little mention was made of slavery. The real problem is with your premise; the states that are the most vocal about the problems with the federal government are typically those that are the most patriotic.
- 9 years ago
Those who don't get their way have talked of secession for hundreds of years.
The beat goes on.
