That logic may play in Texas, but Washington, D.C., is a whole different ball game. Secession is—of course, of course!—a settled matter nationally, a no-go. The Supreme Court's 1869 decision in Texas ...

For two weeks in April, the top movie in America explored what would happen if Texas and California seceded from the United States. The answer, as foreshadowed in the title Civil War, was brutal ...