Posted on 10/19/2013 2:00:09 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
The electoral map divides the country neatly into blue states and red states. But blue states include vast conservative stretches; and most red states harbor liberal enclaves, too. In recent years, as partisan polarization has grown, some political minorities in these disaffected areas have proposed a radical solution: state partition.
It has happened before. Maine, for instance, was once part of Massachusetts. And while none of the current movements really has a shot, the eleven instances mapped here (including that to grant the District of Columbia statehood) have at least attracted the support of elected officials.
What would happen if all of them succeeded? Each new state would get two senators and its share of electoral college votes. We ran the numbers and recalculated the 2012 presidential race.
In this bizarro United States, the GOP would have a structural advantage in the expanded Senate, and Barack Obama would have had a tighter fight against Mitt Romney in the electoral college (which he won, in reality, 332–206).
If Republicans really want to screw with the electoral map, some argue they could break up Texas into five states according to the state’s terms of annexation. Democrats, meanwhile, can dream that Texas makes good on Governor Rick Perry’s threat to secede from the union altogether.
Total Electoral Votes1
Obama 310
Romney 247
Senate
Democrats 60 Republicans 62
Proposed Electoral Map
Virginia would love to get NoVa to secede, at which point the rest of the state (even if it still includes Tidewater and Richmond) would be red.
McAuliffe can be governor of NoVa, Cuccinelli of the rest.
Even within those areas there are a lot of us. We're just outnumbered.
Please add me to the Secession and Anti-Secession ping and prayer list. Thank you kindly!
If Chicago suffered like Detroit, the Liberals will hide it, obfuscate it and channel money to it all the while denying there is a problem.
Right...then we'd be fighting over who gets the Alamo.
Democrats, meanwhile, can dream that Texas makes good on Governor Rick Perry’s threat to secede from the union altogether.
Perry never threatened to secede. He side-stepped that issue big time.
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(I like your tagline by the way)
“Perry never threatened to secede. He side-stepped that issue big time.”
Other Texas politicians seem to be doing their best to do the same. I’m glad of it, but I don’t think they’ll be able to keep it up in the long term.
Didn’t we already try this 150 or so years ago?
>>>>If Chicago suffered like Detroit, the Liberals will hide it, obfuscate it and channel money to it all the while denying there is a problem.<<<<
This is what Detroit did for years. They kept sucking money from the rest of the state.
Thanks! Believe it or not, I got this tagline from Davy Jones of the Monkees, who used to say it during his concerts! LOL
Don’t be so sure. Remember the Buffet Rule? Proclaim by towncrier Barry O to be asking the “rich” to just pay a little more.
Well raising the income tax wouldn’t have touched Buffet at all. He only takes 100,000 in taxable income, and around 75,000 of director fees from various companies. Less than the cutoffs mentioned of 200,000 or 250,000.
Same for other rich guys. It’s the middle class and the small business owner who pay income taxes. The big rich guys don’t. If they wanted to be serious about making the rich pay more, they would institute a net wealth tax.
That doesn’t ever get even mentioned by the pols and the rich would cut them off if it was pursued.
“If at first you don’t secede, try, try again.”
Lol, very good.
I only steal the best.
L8R
“Didn’t we already try this 150 or so years ago?”
Yup. Didn’t turn out very well. At least for the states that seceded from the union.
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