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President Barack Obama stands on stage after his victory speech at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Texas GOP official pushes secession, calls Obama voters 'maggots'

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Hardin County Republican treasurer Peter Morrison thinks things would be better off if Texas just separated from the country...
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Slideshow: Blacks and whites square off on secession

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SLIDESHOW - The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a 'Secession Ball'...
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NAACP opposes dance to celebrate South secession

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Monday's ball is like having a dance to celebrate the attack on Pearl Harbor, said Lonnie Randolph...
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Why celebrate secession? Civil War revisionists sidestep slavery

David A. Love
OPINION - What is troubling about this glorification of secession, and the efforts to preserve it, is its whitewashing of slavery, if not its total elimination from the equation...
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Maryland trying to secede from the South

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's official song may include a line about "Northern scum" left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn't feeling so Southern anymore...
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