History Memes

It's strange to compare the sentiment you describe in section 1 to what I feel in the present day. I'm interested in the well-being of the USA, because I live here, because I have a lot to be grateful for, and because I believe in (what I consider) the American ideal. But I'm also acutely aware that there are many people very different from me in this country. People who don't want the same things as I do; people who wouldn't like me; people whom I wouldn't like. If they wanted to secede, I wouldn't be shocked. I might even support them in the unlikely circumstances where their plan was workable in practice. Am I just unusually receptive to that sort of thing (I lean libertarian so I tend to sympathize with people who insist on doing things their own way) or am I part of a broader post-nationalist movement?

(Off topic but funny, IMO: When someone joked about seceding after an election didn't turn out the way that most people in our region wanted, a friend of mine replied that rather than seceding from the union, we should secede the union from us. We would stay the USA and former rest of the country would have to find some new identity.)