Parting Company

(cont'd) unless they enacted extreme pro-union labor laws. Conservatives know that unions are the backbone of Democrat power and requiring union participation in labor laws, and forced unionization of employees, would diminish conservative influence and lead to a permanent Democrat majority. That, of course, would lead to permanent unconstitutional overreach. So, in that case, would secession be caused by an objection to unions or by an objection to a powergrab that involves forced unionization? Preservation of slavery was an issue in exactly the same way. No, the irony of comparing unions and right to work states to slave and abolishionist states is not lost on me.