You bizarrely described my American Civil War analogy as an example of my being a 'fascist bullyboy', then ignored my invitation to qualify your statement - the invitation is still open. - Jim Carroll

When the thirteen colonies became the first thirteen States of the United States of America I believe that it was written into the Constitution of each individual State that they were free at anytime to secede from that Union. The Northern States by forcing the Southern States to remain in the Union was therefore acting against the wishes of the people of the Southern States and against the Constitutions of those States, plain coercion in other words.