I follow a lot of SL accounts, and I have not seen a single one even give the idea of succession not working the time of day. A lot of them seem like reasonable people when you hear them speak on other topics, so it's pretty scary how they have doubled down so much on it and refuse to accept reality.
The thing is, how would a politican in SL even break it to them that they spent 33 years chasing a mirage? Median age is below 20, most the populace doesn't even remember when secession wasn't the party line. Reminds me how the world collapsed for communists when the USSR fell, it's like the foundation of their identity got pulled under the rug.
The funniest thing is that there were so many other choices they could have made, but they chose this. Crazy tbh, I haven't seen anything like this before. The really high IQ SL accounts are just praying for an AS take over of the South for the chance of recognition to go up, even just a bit. Gotta be tough when your choices led you to that.