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you can also argue that secession is deeply rooted in some--
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some have argued this;
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certainly Bertram Wyatt-Brown has and others--
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is rooted in this notion of a tradition of southern honor.
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The thesis that at the heart of the southern planter class,
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in particular, at the heart of their cohesion,
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their self-understanding, and their worldview,
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was a set of values by which men, especially planters,
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defined themselves, and therefore their society,
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and when those values were threatened
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they circled the wagons in defense.
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And these were the manly virtues, the argument went,