Avoiding civil war should be the first priority

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The Texas border crisis may be taking America to a place it's been before, and it doesn't want to go back.

The Supreme Court's surprising 5-4 decision to strike down Texas' final say over who crosses its border was unexpected, at least from the point of view the conservative justices sided against the Lone Star State . When looking at the question from a purely ideological point of view, his logic was understandable. The question is: “Was it practical, given the current landscape of the country?”

Division of the country that remembers the year 1860

“The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states.” The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott professed. Oh! That language it's surprisingly similar in the first line of the ordinances of secession passed by the slave states when they intended to leave the union.

According to some interpretations, this “compact” – not national sovereignty, but a contract between states and the federal government – constituted the United States of America. The ordinances of secession asserted that the federal government, and especially the president, owed certain constitutional duties to the states under this compact.

President Abraham Lincoln strongly opposed this so-called pact. In his first inaugural address, he stated that “The Union of these States is perpetual” under the Constitution. The United States does no they form a pact, but it is a “country” united by a “national fabric”.

Most Southerners did not share his point of view.

Lincoln's perception was not supported by all Northerners either. Secretary of State William Seward would have been happy to allow the seven Gulf states that initially seceded to leave peacefully. The former New York governor tied the seven states that came out with 14 Democratic Senate votes. Seward was an expansionist. He saw these senators as the main deterrent to achieving that goal.

This factor alone might have motivated Lincoln enough to resupply Fort Sumter. If he had only withdrawn the small force, the horrible war might have been avoided altogether.

Lincoln initially positioned the war as “a battle against secession, not slavery.” (“If I could save the Union without freeing a single slave I would,” he said wrote in 1862“and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would.”

The Emancipation Proclamation came later in 1863. Its purpose was to prevent Britain and France from aiding the Confederacy.

The rewriting of American history

More than 150 years later, revisionist historians have recreated America's most tragic event, with a different and potentially dangerous twist: that it was solely a war to end the institution of slavery and racial injustice. Citing “Critical Race Theory” they have revived bitter revelations from the past. “Project 1619” and the “Woke” ideology in general have pitted Americans against Americans.

As expected, these new claims generated a reaction from the other side. Presenting what is now called “The Great Replacement Theory,” they accused the left of trying to change the country's demographics by facilitating wholesale minority immigration.

This argument is finding traction. Joe Biden is now seen as the latest “tool” of the far left to change the outcome of the vote in some key states. His opponents consider him “the greatest threat in history to our Democratic Republic.”

It's not just a Republican position. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suggests that SCOTUS got it wrong.

“Texas is right. Biden's failure to secure the border leaves the states no choice but to take matters into their own hands,” Kennedy. wrote in a post on Xformerly known as Twitter.

25 governors agree with Abbott. It is believed that as many as 34 states could eventually join Texas. At best, this would put the United States in “Article Five” land! At worst, it could spell the end of America as we know it!

The third option-realignment of the continent

Seward's reasoning was anchored in the makeup of the Senate. If South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had left, he would have had an easier time getting his proposed legislation through Congress. In his mind, these states were the land of “heat and mosquitoes.” He considered them dominated by interests that combined, “cotton, slaves and arrogance”.

Much has changed since the days of Lincoln and Seward. The states that support Texas see a federal government essentially run by an administrative state based in Washington DC. The Heritage Foundation recently noted that “95%” of administrative state political contributions have gone to the Biden party. There is a prevailing paradigm that Abbott's party is perpetually facing “the wind in its face”.

There is also a growing awareness that the core of Biden's party comes from the six New England states. They currently make up almost 1/8 of the Senate seats, specifically 11 Democrats and one aging RINO. Their combined population is less than Florida!

From Seward's perspective, the easiest path to passing the desired legislation would be to “look north.” Given Canada's own division along with its fragility, a “nation the size of Texas, with the population of Florida,” aptly named “New England,” would have advantages.

Greater New England would include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island, and Vermont. About 93% of the population of the six states and four provinces can trace their ancestry to the British Isles. Author based in Maine; Colin Woodward identified this part of North America as “Yankeedom”. Their first task would be to convince the Danes to sell them Greenland. From there he would have an almost certain seat on the Arctic Council.

Does it sound absurd? It is practical. The “Yankee uniformity” of New England would make for a comfortable conversion for English-speaking European immigrants. Its population would grow dramatically, providing the ultimate western respite for overpopulated Britain! New England would set its own immigration standards, undaunted by politicians thousands of miles away.

With 44 states remaining, there would be a super majority in the Senate. The end of the administrative state would become inevitable. Better yet, an increasingly likely confrontation would become avoidable.

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