Why The US Map Could Look Radically Different In 15 Years

IWB ^ | Daniel Carter

[TalonDJ]

“The United States has been consistently gobbling up new territory for the last 241 years. “

Blew all credibility in the first sentence by having no idea what the word “consistently” means.

[kabar]

The author of this ludicrous piece.

[PGR88]

The basic premiss is correct - that countries and their borders are rarely stable in history.

America’s present focus on stupid “diversity” and bashing our long-established culture, and the majority white race, along with our massive debt, are to two fractures that could lead to great trouble and division in the future.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Philippines really don’t fit the description.

Well, we didn't buy them. They didn't attack us until Spain tried ceding them to the U.S. in a war that really had nothing to do with them. They had nothing to do with the explosion on the Maine. The Filipinos by and large did not particularly want to be annexed by us. We killed a lot of folks there to get the place. Yeah, I'd call it plunder.

[MrEdd]

The author.

Do you have such a meager knowledge of both history and geography that you didn’t spot the nut burger factor right off?

[sparklite2]

The distinction is that the Philippines are not a state.

[Dr. Sivana]

The distinction is that the Philippines are not a state.

You are right. I had not noticed that the writer limited the plunder line to the 50 states. That makes his case even sadder.

[cpdiii]

The author of this article says, With such a growing cultural divide in the US, I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one of these states breaks away from the rest of the US. Remember, this scenario would not be an unusual occurrence in the grand scheme of things."

The reason for the cultural divide is the Federal Government taking on a role it was never intended to be. One must always remember we are a Republic of individual states! The intrusive Federal Government has usurped the power of the individual states and thus nationalized individual differences of states to chart their own destiny.

Damn the Federal Judiciary to hell.

Each state should be allowed to succeed or fail on its own as dictated by their citizens.

What we now have today is a central government most tyrannical in nature and form. That is why we went to war with England to gain our Independence.

The road to national harmony is a reduced Federal influence and let each and individual state to do what they wish so long as it is within Constitutional Law.

We ripped the heart out of our nation during the civil war. This was not necessary. Slavery would have died and was dying.

ps
An odd history of freed slaves during the civil war. In the South were freed slaves and in particular Louisiana. Some were great land owners of wealth. They had slaves working their lands. They fought for the South. It was simply an economic decision. The politically correct do not like to talk about this. Slavery was an most evil thing. Lincoln ended it and that was good. It would have ended anyway and the civil war was an abomination that should have never happened.

[captain_dave]

Empty article missing real content.

[beergarden]

Well, I’ve asked people that WHEN we take out Fat Boy and Nokor, dont tell me we’ll hand it to South Korea. We will expand again as usual so there may be a point to this article.

[packrat35]

Also, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands in the 1980’s

[Nifster]

You keep posting crap from a stupid blog site

Way passed time you stop

[TBP]

There’s been talk about California seceding. There has been talk about Texas seceding. Some want to make Puerto Rico a state.

Canada has had to deal with Quebec’c effort to be independent, and if that happens, there is some talk that the Western provinces might want to secede and join the USA.

There has been some talk of the Southwest becoming a country of its own. There has been some talk of New England seceding and joining with the Maritime Provinces to make a new country called Acadia.

So far, all of these are just talk. I’ll believe any of these scenarios when I see it. But they’re interesting to talk about.

[laplata]

Do you have such a meager knowledge of both history and geography that you didn’t spot the nut burger factor right off”?

As good or better than you.

[M Kehoe]

“Plunder, “ Daniel?

We should have kept France, Germany, Japan...

5.56mm

[hanamizu]

sales forced as part of the outcome of war (Gadsden Purchase).

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The Gadsen Purchase was to facilitate a southern route for the transcontinental railroad, not as a direct result of war. You’ve may have seen pictures of the Union Pacific tracks within feet of the Mexican border (the train gets robbed occasionally—the thieves quickly jump the fence to safety).

[laplata]

Thanks. I saw the video of Yuri Bezmenov and thought he might be the one. I knew Yuri in the early ‘80’s.

[SoCal Pubbie]

When did we annex the Philippines? Last time I looked they were an independant country. It was a Spanish possession which we took control of after the Spanish-American war, but it wasn’t part of our territorial system for very long in historical terms.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Gadsen Purchase was to facilitate a southern route for the transcontinental railroad, not as a direct result of war.

Well, it is widely thought that we set terms for the deal, kind of like the deal that Don Corleone proposed to get Johnny Fontaine his first contract.

[Dr. Sivana]

but it wasn’t part of our territorial system for very long in historical terms.

I didn't say we had it for long, but we did go over there when our beef with Spain really had nothing to do with the Philippines. The folks there declared independence from Spain and we took them anyway. 20-30+ years (depending on how you count the time line) is long enough if you were living there at the time.

It certainly isn't like the Louisiana Purchase, or even the Panama Canal, which we got on favorable terms partly in exchange for Panama getting its independence (which they should be grateful for now) and a hit of cash combined with a permanent asset that we provided for them.