The secession of the CSA was an action that must have taken an awful lot of planning and forethought. when did the concept of an independent south first arise, and when did it enter popular discourse? How well-known was it at the time of and leading up to secession?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3boun3/the_lost_cause_the_american_civil_war_and_the/

Written by /u/georgy_k_zhukov who is also a mod here I believe

This post is principly about the causes of the civil war but it also does talk about the times that the south threatened to seced from the union before they actually did it for reals