re: How do you feel about Mississippi's "Confederate Heritage Month"?

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620,000 American deaths is not a "peaceful secession movement". 

Also, you act as if the south declared in one voice to secede. There was a pretty substantial portion of the population that were never given a voice in the matter. As a matter of fact, they were just referred to as property.

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You missed my point entirely. The War Between the States settled the matter of secession once and for all: if a state or states voluntarily attempted the leave the Union, they would be subjected to war and violence. The purpose of the war was to centralize power in a large federal government, which began during the war and has continued since.