Urgh, yes. You would think something over which our country fought a (literally) bloody civil war would be considered completely and totally settled for good, wouldn't you?

Of course, I reckon that you have it even worse, you might say, living where you are surrounded by people who really do believe that they have either the unilateral right to secede or to split into five separate states (neither is true, and the latter is a misreading of the act that annexed Texas in the first place). OTOH, I've moved to a place disparagingly nicknamed "Ferntucky" for its supposedly redneck, uneducated, hick attitudes, so maybe I'm no better off.