If a second attempt is to be made at secession, it is important to keep in mind the factors which led to the failure of the first.
It is of utmost importance that the Second Confederacy reach out beyond its historical borders for allies. States north of the Mason-Dixon Line must be courted away from the federal government.
Additionally, the large black population must be placated to prevent them from being radicalized by federal forces. To this end, it is imperative that the conflict not be framed in terms of race. It must, at its core and in the eyes of onlookers around the world, be a conflict over government abuses.
It is not enough to simply fight the good fight; taking part in secession is taking part in geopolitics, and it must be treated with the same level of Machiavellian scheming as any other move on the Grand Chessboard. If you would secede you must be willing to adopt or abandon tactics at a moment's notice. You must be willing to court strange allies with whom you would never have broken bread with the day before. You must deny your enemy every advantage they might have against you.
I encourage you all to use this thread to discuss threats the secession movement faces, and to provide implementable tactics to diminish or resolve these threats. Pic extremely related.