Posted on 05/21/2009 7:09:40 PM PDT by Born Conservative
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare
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If the country could be divided peacefully, and Democrats, baby-killers, Communists, and RINOs simply move to one territory, and Americans to the other, the value of land and all resources in the Republican territory would skyrocket, and the value of land and other resources in the Democrat territory would plummet. It would be well worth the dislocation for those moving into the new Republican country.
In this computer age, it could be done virtually.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_121008/content/01125113.guest.html
*Please Note: As you will read in the transcript below, it appears that Rush's instincts on this story were right, but the staff forced him to read a hoax. Joseph Olson is a professor at Hamline University, but he has posted the following disclaimer on his website in reference to a version of the story that Rush read on-air."DISCLAIMER: There is an e-mail floating around the internet dealing with the 2000 Bush/Gore election, remarks of a Scotish philosopher named Alexander Tyler, etc. Part of it is attributed to me. It is entirely BOGUS as to my authorship. I've been trying to kill it since December 2000. For details see: http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp."
There used to be a fiction series of that happening. Tri-states was founded by Ben Raines and a group of patriots and consisted of eastern Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The series was written by William Johnstone.
The eastern government violently resisted and it made for some great reading. I can’t remember the name of the series so if anyone else does, help me out.
At the time I read these novels I never imagined I would live to see the eastern government become the way it was portrayed in those stories.
Hard times, they are coming. Only hard people will survive.
Thanks for clarifying. I checked Snopes first and didn’t find this specific entry.
Actually TWO: (though it had some unworkable parts-)
Articles of Confederation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/articles-of-confederation
Bump....
I am WHOLEHEARTEDLY with you brother.
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