The western panhandle of MD is WAY rural , out past Cumberland along Interstate 68 , it ' s only politically part of MD , culturally and economically it ' s part of WV . So there are bound to be a few tough as nails tributes that could be found there <| sep |> Secession , being the mechanism which brought the nation into being in the first place , in principle cannot be judged illegal by that nation in the future . Of course it can . The Thirteen colonies wrote the declaration of independence to explain their reasons for secession . But they never claimed it was legal . Your argument seems to be not just that it ' s justifiable , but that it ' s actually legal under the constitution . That ' s a different argument , and it ' s wrong .