Whether Thompson’s argument is correct depends in part on your political ideology. If your overriding objective is to have a more left-wing federal government, it’s hard to deny that southern secession would accomplish that goal for the remainder of the United States. The nonsouthern electorate is significantly to the left of the present total US voting population (which of course includes the South).
No but the world would be better off without so damned many leftists.
I think the south would be better off without the north.
If Obama is re-elected, I hope secession becomes a serious topic of discussion. Even if he is defeated, I would like to see it explored.
Neither side can stand each other. Might be time for an amicable split.
Instead of North / South though, I would like to see the Coasts split off along with most of the major cities throughout the rest of the country.
The question is backwards. Because the South WOULD be better off without the North. . . .
I have often wondered... If the South was evil, and the North was a bastion of morality, then why didn’t the North WANT to secede? Why would the North have had this great desire to remain associated with slaveholding evildoers? Easy, it’s the same impulse that remains today: Power.
“If your overriding objective is to have a more left-wing federal government, it’s hard to deny that Southern secession would accomplish that goal for the remainder of the United States.”
The north would wind up eating their own.
Many would come scurrying across the border to the South.
What a POS piece by some snotty nosed yankee, with a small y.
No doubt, he is also a Marxist Obot.
The south would have to find a way to defend itself from the north’s economic and cultural collapse. Build a wall to stop the desperate hordes from bringing their economic and cultural decay south. Have a Democrat deportation program.
The South has been saving the Union from the democrats for decades.
If anything, the South would be much better off without the damn liberal North.
Well racists and leftists go hand in hand. DNC was the klan party and were designed to terrorize blacks and southern Republicans. Maybe we’d all be better off.
We don’t need tyranny or secession, we just need a reinvigorated tenth amendment. The Constitution is the moderate, reasonable middle ground.
Nothing would make me happier than for the South to seceed. Seriously, conservatives get the South and Liberals the North. Wish it could be done.
This question is so ridiculous I can’t even come up with an answer. Let’s write an article titled “Would the Country Be Better Without African-Americans” and see how that plays out. Who are these people? I will say this; if California and New York want us to leave, I’m all for it. By God, we tried to leave one time and everybody got all upset.
The South would be better off without the North.
The only problem is the West and most of the Midwest would go with the South leaving the Leftist to starve and freeze in their incompetently governed enclaves in the North East and West Coast.
not the right question.
it is not a north / south issue. it is urban (commie) vs rural (constitutionalists). Mostly rural states, would be immensely better off without the commie urban dominated states. Simply don’t care about the future of the urbanites.
Specifically, Texas would be better off without the drag of the commies and if we seceded, I would hope and pray, that the vast majority of the rat infestation would leave for their commie utopia.
The south would probably be better off without the north.
I sat by my neighborhood pool (Williamson County TN) today listening to two old Yankee biddies
usual old Yankee womyn...gray bobbed hair...thick...mandals...no make up...very masculine
going on and on about how great Obamacare was for everyone to hear and then how stupid right wingers were for opposing it and how rightwingers when exposed were never around poor people...and so forth..standard Northern liberal progressive garbage
when they finally left...the dozen or so of us left...mostly southern with 2 Michiganders who are smart...applauded
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they will be the ruin of the South...their presence has already screwed Florida except when we get lucky, are a definite threat to Virginia, North Carolina and even make life in metro Nashville politically progressive
the question should be why are so many white Northerners so damned progressive in addition to being rude and sour and demanding..especially when they come down here...are they like announcing themselves...feeling outta the progressive pond or something
If I could sell my home...I tried...I would move more rural to get away from them.
Northerners I meet who get it...without question...Indiana rural folks(honorary Southerners), white Detroit refugees, rural Michiganders, and other exceptions...and they are welcome but I fear most non southern newcomers are not social conservatives and lean Dem...just from observing and looking at NOVA, Metro Atlanta, the Piedmont and huge swaths of Florida's east and west coasts and Mouseland
I wish we could hand pick ya’ll I swear
you know I went and read the article again...what a bunch of crap...what do Yankees have wings and play harps?
are you so daft to truly believe that garbage...you saved us from ourselves more or less?
Will someone please explain to me what makes Yankees such insufferably arrogant egotistical snobs?
The South has risen because you damaged yourselves up north thru purely self inflicted wounds and we went GOP because the GOP became the de facto party of social conservatism after LBJ went mad and Nixon and others...John Tower in a large way saw the opening of where to go now.
All that social engineering you are self congratulating over in your screed has turned our inner cities now into the same cess pools you abandoned up north last generation to come down here and I guess if we don't stop you, you'll try to screw up what we have left here.
How old is the writer of this hot mess?