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The Need To Secede: The Disunited States Of America
Monday, July 29, 2024
Season 1 | Episode 68
Dr. Phil

With the United States more divided than ever, Dr. Phil sits down with modern-day secessionists who say they feel the Need to Secede.

Dr. Phil explores the topic of secession and what would push an everyday person to want their state to secede from the Union. Dan Golvach reveals that the murder of his son by an illegal immigrant led him to join the Texas Exit “Texit” movement. Dr. Phil is also joined by Daniel Miller, the founder of the Texas nationalist movement, and author of “TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union.”. Daniel believes Texas secession is inevitable, claiming Texans could make 600% more money if Texas became its own country. Carla Gericke of the New Hampshire Exit “NHExit” movement explains why she believes New Hampshire should become its own country, and journalist Laura Wellington discusses her prediction of a second Civil War by 2029 and why secession is a real possibility. Finally, Richard Kreitner, author of “Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union,” sits down to explain the facts behind these secession movements and answer the question: is secession truly possible in modern-day America?

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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
By Richard Kreitner

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From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).

The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't limited to the South or the nineteenth century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away.

With a scholar's command and a journalist's curiosity, Richard Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town's petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil.

From the "cold civil war" that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age.

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