What was that thing, where the states that didn't want to work with impending federal legislation decided to do their own thing? That was the event that every s

What was that thing, where the states that didn't want to work with impending federal legislation decided to do their own thing? That was the event that every state in the Union always describes in glowing terms, right? And everybody has always spoken really highly of the Texan motions for secession, right? What a bunch of hypocritical bullshit.