This week, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., declared that Republican and Democratic states in the U.S. need "a divorce," prompting many to wonder whether she was calling for Republican-leaning states to secede.
Later, Greene claimed that she wasn't calling for secession but for the federal government to have less influence, allowing states to determine how to govern for themselves — wording that echoes the "states' rights" rhetoric that was used to justify seceding from the U.S. in the run-up to the Civil War.
