On December 20, this country more or less quietly marked the sesquicentennial anniversary of the day South Carolina drafted secession papers and formally seceded from the United States of America in 1860.  Their secession was ratified on December 24, four days later.  At issue for them was the nebulous idea of states’ rights entangled with […]

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