Volkswagen workers celebrate in Chattanooga, Tenn., after their bid to join the UAW union prevailed.
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Despite making similar efforts for decades, the UAW union had never before managed to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in a Southern state like Tennessee.
More than 600,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War.
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There was one central reason the Civil War happened.
Acts of secession are happening across the U.S.
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Secession talk evokes fears of a second Civil War. But one scholar says secession is already happening in the US under a variety of guises.