From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   Nicholas Benjamin  wrote:   
      
   Jesus, how can someone be so wrong about so many things in a single   
   paragraph?   
      
   >   
   >Which American experience re: secession are you talking about? There has   
   never been an independence referendum of any sort in any US State ever.   
   >   
      
   Wrong.  Texas, Virginia, and Tennessee all held referendums on   
   secession.   
      
   >   
   >The Confederates had a completely separate legal procedure involving   
   specially elected conventions. If they'd tried a referendum they would have   
   lost because they were seceding to protect slavery from evil Abe Lincoln,   
   >   
      
   Wrong.  While legal slavery was one issue, the different economic   
   interests of the North and the South were at the root of everything.   
      
   >   
   >and roughly 40% of their populations were slaves.   
   >   
      
   Irrelevant, since slaves and other livestock weren't allowed to vote.   
      
   >   
   >There are plenty of referendums, but nobody has ever done one on breaking up   
   the country.   
   >   
      
   See above.   
      
      
   --   
   "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the   
    truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."   
                                  -- Thomas Jefferson   
      
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