Rebel Redux

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Abbeville Institute:

Rebel Redux

By John Marquardt on Nov 14, 2016

 

Rumblings of open rebellion were in the air . . . a certain group within the state had felt for some time that their state’s wealth and resources were being unfairly used by the federal government to subsidize other areas of the nation. Moreover, it was deemed that the social values of these other areas were in direct conflict with those of their state. Later, the sense of opposition grew even stronger within the group due to the election of a new Republican president who had gained office with a minority of the national vote, and who had been utterly rejected by the voters in both their and the neighboring states. Among the reasons for the latter opposition was the president-elect’s alleged racial agenda which ran counter to the views of many in the region. The group’s solution to all of their perceived ills was to legally secede from the United States and return to their original status of a sovereign entity. While one may think that all of this certainly sounds like South Carolina in 1860, it actually refers to present-day California.