Why wasn't there a widespread or even a fringe secessionist movement in the American South during Jim Crow? It seems really weird that the south would just lose the war and leave it at that. My mother who hails from Pennsylvania remembers moving down here in South Carolina as a child and she and the family got the feeling that because they were Yankees they were just a little bit above the blacks in the natives eyes. The culture of the Antebellum South survived for years in all of it's Yankee hating, racialist caste system, militaristic, lost cause of the Confederacy glory and it just seems strange to me that a culture so proud of it's distinctiveness from the rest of the country (almost nationalistic in fact), so despising of the rest of the country, with the memory of the Yankee invasion (in their eyes) almost seeming fresh in the minds of the people there 100 years after the fact, which had it's most cherished institutions under attack by the Yankees wouldn't have had at least a fringe separatist group. In fact it wasn't until the 1990's I believe until there rose a group called the League of the South a Southern Nationalist group which advocated and still advocates for separation from the United States. I've always wondered about this.