Hi clo,
the south tried, of course. And lost. I've never quite understood why they weren't permitted to leave the union.
Hi mags,
but why should everyone else be held to ransom for the sake of the few liberals who choose to live in amongst the moral maximalist-economic minimalists of Christian Libertaria? If they want to pollute their rivers and leave their poor to starve, I say let them do it - and see how long they like it.
Just let everyone else live like human beings.