Posted on 05/06/2008 11:42:12 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
The City of North Lauderdale is taking a tough stance on home rule, and because of this they are spearheading an effort to split Florida into two states. They have passed a resolution, asking that a boundary line to split South Florida from the rest of the state be drawn at the Palm Beach County line. They're taking it so seriously that they want counties in South Florida, such as Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe to join in supporting them.
CBS4 viewers responded enthusiastically, and often humorously, when asked to submit a motto for the new state of South Florida.
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As goofy as this sounds, there is some merit to it. North Florida is to South Florida, as Georgia is to New York.
Florida... that’s America’s wang.
I’LL VOTE FOR IT!!!!!..............
Actually, Florida has been two states for a long time...
The quad-county area practically is a separate country anyway...
We keep FSU, UCF and UF, they get Miami Hurricanes......
Congress' and the State Legislature's consent are needed for this. If they think a democrat owned Congress is going to go for this, they are smoking crack.
two states, sure. florida and floriDUH!
From West Palm Beach to Key West and across to Fort Meyers can be Liberalia.............
two states? Hell why not three or fifteen.
I want New Jersey to go for this also. Take Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City, Essex County, Passaic County and Hudson County and let them be New Jersey. Let the rest become the Garden State.
That way the Democrat Party can disenfranchise both of them!
Maybe the Northern Counties can just join Georgia...
My kids have never seen a beach, so I am taking them to the Redneck Riviera in June.
They probably are smoking crack, and the Dems would love it.......Two guaranteed liberal senators and several more liberal representatives in the House.........
Section III. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
There was a move to try and split California into 3 states......
New New York ... and they’re welcome to it.
C’mon down!...........but the traffic is terribler in the summer........
The Democrats know that even when South Floridans want to vote Democrat, they end up voting for Pat Buchanan anyway.
if you’ve been to Atlanta lately, you’ll realize it has more to do with New York than the rest of the State of Georgia..the attempts to “de-southernize” it have worked..
You mention making D.C. a state. I am in greatly in favor of that. Give D.C. Prince George and Montgomery counties from Maryland. Maryland would then become a red state. Everyone wins.
Yep..in Brevard County it has that 1988 Broward feeling creeping in on a daily basis.
I always thought that the boundary should be I-4. As far as making North Florida part of Georgia....No can do. How would that work for Gainesville, huh?? Knowing those Bulldogs they’d make Gainesville the “Girls-Only” campus out of spite.
It used to be New York City and Upstate, but they’ve started creeping northward along the Hudson.
I just wish we could move Austin out of Texas...
Not so sure about that..Collier county would fall in there and it is very Conservative/GOP.
Don't forget USF!
Very true. After Andrew when folks came north flush with cash and saw the price of waterfront property in Brevard, they thought it was on sale! We sold our beautiful piece of paradise in Brevard County last year. But I do not miss the taxes and insane insurance rates.
Texas is actually the only state that can self-segment (into five states) without the permission of the Congress?
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp
Didn’t stop West Virginia. Of course, there was a little Civil war going on at the time...
Almost every state could do this, in that, there are different regions in the state that don’t seem to belong together.
I’ve heard of talk that California should be split, because northern and southern California don’t have a lot in common.
But the same could be said of the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois, the New York City area and upstate New York, the example of Florida mentioned here, the Seattle area and the rest of Washington, the Portland area and the rest of Oregon, the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC and the rest of Maryland, the Twin Cities and the rest of Minnesota, etc. etc.
I would be concerned about this type of trend, because new states added by such splits might tend to be the more urbanized areas splitting off from the rest of the state. The result would be more liberal Democrats in the Senate, as additional states would each get their 2 senators.
Two states my butt! Take the Northeast and the west coast, put them together and make one nation and we can keep ours.
I’LL VOTE FOR IT!!!!!..............Me too if they throw in Collier.
How about “Chadahoma”.
Seriously a state that cannot even hold an election free of controversy and they want to double the trouble.
We, in the civilized Penssylvania, would dearly love to kick out Phildelphia and have them join New Jersey. We’ll take the decent part of your state in exchange. Then our crooked governor and your crooked governor could square off to see who becomes governor of New New Jersey and New Pennsylvania can elect somebody decent.
When I was a kid there was serious talk about breaking out the Delaware Valley...South Jersey, Philly, Wilmington and the rest of DE. As much as the folks I knew resented North Jersey there was no way they wanted to be tied to Philly so it never went anywhere.
Floridumb
The Snowbird State
Southern Ohio
I am all IN!
Florida is far from the only state split along these demographic and urban/suburban/rural kinds of lines. New York has NYC, NYC suburbs, and "upstate." Illinois has Chicago, Chicago suburbs, and "downstate." Michigan has Detroit, its suburbs, and the rest of the state. Pennsylvania has Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the rest of the state.
So there is nothing very unusual about part of a state talking about secession from the rest of it. However, it has actually come to pass just once, or possibly twice, in American history. And it took a Civil War for West Virginia to secede from Virgina.
The founding fathers were wise to put the provision requiring congressional approval in the Constitution, although perhaps they could have done better by requiring a supermajority of Congress.
even better...give them NOVA too. That way VA becomes a red state again.
“Maybe the Northern Counties can just join Georgia...”
Trade Miami for Atlanta? No way.
They get South Beach, Coconut Grove, and Key West, and we get Disney World, Universal Studios, and Cape Canaveral?
-PJ
We keep the Jaguars, maybe the Buccaneers and they keep the Dolphins.......
One more, but we'd also get one more Republican. Bill Nelson lives in Miami, so we'd be able to elect another Republican Senator in the new state of North Florida.
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