Washington Post: Talk of Secession Always Gets U.S. History Wrong

Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress.

It has been a few years since this website has been really active in pushing for secession and Southern Nationalism. There are five reasons for that:

• The first reason is that I became increasingly convinced that White identity and Southern identity had been severely weakened and repressed over the past several generations. We have a sharp sense of racial, ethnic and cultural identity, but most people don’t anymore. We are honestly more in a rebuilding phase than a let’s raise the battle flag and revolt phase.
• The second reason is that White people and Southerners were in a complacent mood under Obama and Donald Trump. When Obama was president, it is fair to say that some people were alarmed, but the threat seemed remote. When Trump was president, millions of people had concluded that they had won, everything was going to be fine and Trump was MAGAing. Even people who had been deeply involved in “extremist” or “far right” politics checked out to hold Trump’s beer.