The biggest problem with this thread title ... and why I call bullshit on it ...
... by seceding, they are taking the American spirit with them, because our countries here were founded by secession and rebellion, not by conformity and dictatorship.
Fact is, The Supremes ruled in 1868, Texas v White that states do not in fact have a right to secede. Even though the ruling has no basis to it, it justifies Lincoln's unlawful war.
Without overturning that ruling, the Feds will just send in the troops, so any such talk is nonsense.