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Secession? Let THEM Secede.
Self | 11/17/12 | RightOnline

Posted on 11/17/2012 3:30:30 PM PST by RightOnline

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To: Sherman Logan
"blue states pay more to the federal government than they receive in services, while of course on average red states take in more than they pay out."

Free people do not want those government services (EPA, FDA, etc.). They are imposed on the red states.

And a big part of it is welfare to Southern blacks to keep them as a permanent underclass of welfare queens.

61 posted on 11/17/2012 5:47:04 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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To: napscoordinator

The blue band in AL includes Montgomery, Selma.and West AL.....large rural black population....not much to worry about. AL is comfortably Red.


62 posted on 11/17/2012 5:59:29 PM PST by rewrite (It ain't what You are, it's what You're about that makes a difference in the world.)
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To: RightOnline

The blue is a map of the cancer cells killing America


63 posted on 11/17/2012 6:11:38 PM PST by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: Sherman Logan
What about 1 vote per household.........

Married couples get 1 vote.

People who don't get married get two votes.

Can't think of a better way to ensure permanent Democratic dominance.


There are a lot of variations possible, I haven't thought every one through.

The not getting married in that scenario wouldn't matter; 2 people not married living in the same house would still be one vote. Make them prove 6+months out of the year to declare residency. 2 or more young adults sharing an apartment would only get one vote. 2 unmarrieds living together would get 1 vote.

You'd only have the issue you describe with hardcore left wing single people who live alone into their 30's+, and only the ones who could afford to live without a roomate. But if they had a boyfriend/girlfriend - in order for both of them to get 1 vote - they both have to have their own unique, provable addresses, they couldn't live in the same house/apt. For people who are basically shacking up, the second apartment or house tends to get dropped to save money since it makes no sense.

Never thought about much more than that.

Should really just go back to old school voting, adult males with some sort of requirement for being of minimum means or have a good service record, but that's probably not gonna happen that soon.
64 posted on 11/17/2012 6:15:56 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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To: Sherman Logan

I think we are on the same page. My opinion is that we need to do whatever it takes to get those manufacturing jobs and infrastructure out of the blue states and into the red states, also if we could get an entertainment/news industry centered in Texas instead of California it could help us in education of the masses.

Speaking of education- we need some governors with sturdy spines to try and fix the educational system.

We need to be thinking 40 years out instead of four. Even if the nation goes into collapse before we can turn it around, we will at least have an infrastructure to rebuild.


65 posted on 11/17/2012 6:28:59 PM PST by rmichaelj
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To: RightOnline
Where`d you get that map? I`m planning a move next year to the safer regions of the south or Texas and I`d love to print that out as a pristine map of the nation. Thats a very valuable resource to some of us.
66 posted on 11/17/2012 7:35:12 PM PST by nomad
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To: napscoordinator

“Arizona, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi look scary with all the blue within their borders. I guess Arizona especially.”

Thomas Chittum wrote about such things in his prescient book, “Civil War II”...


67 posted on 11/17/2012 8:02:33 PM PST by Road Glide
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To: greene66
"They are the bloodsucking ticks leeches." I reworded it for you.
68 posted on 11/17/2012 8:29:14 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: RightOnline

Umm...Wasn’t this tried & decided back in the Civil War? Just sayin’...


69 posted on 11/17/2012 9:13:25 PM PST by sarah palin rocks
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To: Sola Veritas

How about anyone who ghcdets a check from the government cannot v
ote?


70 posted on 11/17/2012 11:25:55 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Sola Veritas
It was a mistake in 1971 to lower the national voting age to 18.

Harry Truman, when asked about lowering the voting age to 18, replied, it would make more sense to raise it to 25. Harry was absolutely correct.

71 posted on 11/18/2012 12:51:05 AM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: sarah palin rocks
"Umm...Wasn’t this tried & decided back in the Civil War? Just sayin’..."

With all due respect, did you actually read what I wrote for this post?

72 posted on 11/18/2012 3:40:38 AM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: nomad

http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/11/07/CountyMap2012.main.jpg


73 posted on 11/18/2012 3:41:35 AM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: RightOnline

This is an interesting map, but I wonder how close to reality it is. It shows Joe Wilson’s South Carolina district #2 as Blue but he won unopposed. http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/South_Carolina’s_2nd_congressional_district_elections,_2012
I don’t think you can get more Red than unopposed. What other problems does this map contain?


74 posted on 11/18/2012 3:47:39 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jim....I’d appreciate your take on this. God bless.


75 posted on 11/18/2012 5:27:04 AM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: nomad
"Where`d you get that map? I`m planning a move next year to the safer regions of the south or Texas ..."

Here is thread on the election maps:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957563/posts

Here is a map that includes shades from red to blue, in case you want to avoid purple areas:

76 posted on 11/18/2012 10:20:39 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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To: RightOnline

The problem you’re facing is that prairie dogs don’t vote, people do. The Colorado map is a prime example. The front range East of the Rockies that extends from the Wyoming border to Pueblo, IS Colorado! The red sure looks pretty but the truth is that 4.4 million of Colorado’s 5.1 million people live in that single strip

Now if you want to make your case that those 4.4 million are living off the largess of the 700,000 people scattered throughout the rest of the state, be my guest, but don’t expect anyone to take the argument seriously.

I’m personally sick of the FR meme that ruralites are hardworking salt of the Earth and urbanites are all on the government dole. Nothing could be further from the truth. I lived in an extremely rural area of East Texas, known as Deep East Texas for more than a decade. Even the venerated (by the locals) Wal-Mart was a good 25 miles away, so I’m talking the sticks.

I haven’t seen such a concentration of welfare recipients since. The real picture of rural America is rampant poverty and next to no opportunity. Every member of #1 daughter’s senior class had a single dream. To somehow escape to Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, or even NYC.


77 posted on 11/18/2012 2:13:29 PM PST by Melas (u)
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To: Melas

Then you totally misunderstood my post.

There are one hell of a lot of cities in this country, not just the liberal sewers on the coasts and the upper Midwest. Not all have populations in 7 or 8 figures.

IOW, you make a specious argument; that there are those blue cities and then a bunch of welfare-sponging yahoos populating the red areas.

That may not have been your intent, but it is exactly what you said....and that is exactly what the Democrats believe.

Check your attitude carefully, is my suggestion.


78 posted on 11/18/2012 2:50:40 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Melas

Well said.


79 posted on 11/18/2012 3:56:56 PM PST by vikk
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
My significant other is also a woman, also owns a business, also has employees and also is a Tea Party member.

She would be happy to give up her right to vote if it would prevent the vast majority of her gender from voting at all.

80 posted on 11/18/2012 4:30:37 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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