I don't see secession happening on either side in the near future. I am as much a believer in America and it's founding principles as I am of my native State of Texas and by God this is still the greatest nation Earth. All 50 States of Her.
Posted on 10/30/2013 1:59:05 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
In early October, I posted a blog entitled "Dear Texas: Please Secede" that advocated kicking Texas as well as Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and perhaps other Southern states out of the USA because they have an inferior culture and their stupidity and greed has had a negative effect on the nation from Day One.
Since then, I have read even more articles about two kinds of secession -- Southern states leaving the USA and rural conservatives in liberal states seeking to form their own state. It's clear that the partisan divide in Washington, D.C., and in numerous states has become so bad that the chances of secession of one kind or another are growing.
On Salon.com, articles about Southern states seceding or being expelled from the USA usually elicit a lot of reaction. The article "Just secede already: The obstructionists aren't going anywhere. Maybe we should" has 624 comments. I am posting this article on Storeboard.com solely because of the comments.
Numerous commenters who say they are Southerners want to leave the USA and numerous commenters who say they don't live in the South want the Confederacy kicked out of the USA.
A typical anti-South commenter who calls himself or herself DDay wrote "Why do we have to wait for these dimwits to get their act together and secede? Why can't WE kick THEM out? It says so right in the Constitution's preamble---"In order to form a more perfect union." I can't think of a better Union than to have the backward looking, Creationist, anti-science Southern states NOT part of our Union. Just think--without these Southern cretins in OUR Congress--we might be able to pass Universal healthcare, establish a decent minimum wage for workers, strengthen union rights and give all people the right to marry who they love. Canada might start to envy US!!!"
The anti-USA secession movements are being fueled by conservatives. You might recall that tens of thousands of people in Southern states signed petitions that favored secession shortly after President Barack Obama was re-elected last year.
In recent months, conservatives in rural counties in California, Colorado, and Maryland have been so outraged by laws passed by liberal majorities in their state legislatures that they have sought to secede and form new states. The conservatives are particularly angry about laws that require background checks on people who want to buy a gun and changes in the culture, including laws that give more rights to gays (all three states have legalized gay marriages or gay civil unions in the last year).
In addition, many people who live in the conservative Upper Peninsula want to secede from relatively liberal Michigan.
The secession movement is particularly advanced in Colorado, where 11 rural counties, one which has fewer than 2,000 residents, will vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, on a resolution that advocates the formation of the state of Northern Colorado or North Colorado. A new state would have to be approved by the Colorado legislature and the U.S. Congress.
The last successful state secession movement occurred in 1863 when West Virginia seceded from Virginia, which had seceded from the entire USA along with 10 other Confederate states.
I don't think North Colorado or Northern Colorado will become the 51st state anytime soon, but I also believe that secession from the USA and secession from individual states is more likely in the next few years than at anytime since the 1861-1865 Civil War.
“Assuming something like this happens, there would be more than one successor country.”
I think it would be very bloody in any case: I don’t see the libs giving up their workers utopia from sea to shining sea.
I think even some places in New England (Wilmington, VT and Small towns of Maine) would secede, too.
san diego or bust ...
I don't see secession happening on either side in the near future. I am as much a believer in America and it's founding principles as I am of my native State of Texas and by God this is still the greatest nation Earth. All 50 States of Her.
I love my mother; my mother loves me. We should be allowed to marry, right?
if they kicked out the conservatives, who would pay for their welfare...
the unions would be the next financial target, and then where would the union workers go???
this would be rich.
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