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human
CMV: There's no valid modern-day reason to oppose a state's secession.

Back in the Civil War times, there was a pretty good reason to oppose secession: the South supported slavery, something that is universally morally wrong, and the only way to end slavery in North America was for the federal government to outlaw it - something that wouldn't be possible if the South withdrew themselves from the oversight of the federal government.

But today, there is no such extreme moral imperative. The only practical reason to oppose a state's secession would be the loss of tax revenue to the federal government - but that's not a particularly moral argument. It's just an economic one. In fact, that might even be an explicitly *immoral* argument, because it prioritizes money over the will of the people.

Peaceful secession is the optimal way to solve the growing left-right divide in the USA. A violent secession would be stupid, for both sides.
gpt
>Peaceful secession is the optimal way to solve the growing left-right divide in the USA.

Except individual states aren't as deeply red or blue as they seem.  For example, 46% of Texans voted for Biden in the last election.  40% of Oregonians voted for Trump.  If those states seceded, it wouldn't solve the divide, it would just create smaller versions of the deeply divided state we have now.