Posted on 10/30/2013 1:59:05 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
In early October, I posted a blog entitled "Dear Texas: Please Secede" that advocated kicking Texas as well as Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and perhaps other Southern states out of the USA because they have an inferior culture and their stupidity and greed has had a negative effect on the nation from Day One.
Since then, I have read even more articles about two kinds of secession -- Southern states leaving the USA and rural conservatives in liberal states seeking to form their own state. It's clear that the partisan divide in Washington, D.C., and in numerous states has become so bad that the chances of secession of one kind or another are growing.
On Salon.com, articles about Southern states seceding or being expelled from the USA usually elicit a lot of reaction. The article "Just secede already: The obstructionists aren't going anywhere. Maybe we should" has 624 comments. I am posting this article on Storeboard.com solely because of the comments.
Numerous commenters who say they are Southerners want to leave the USA and numerous commenters who say they don't live in the South want the Confederacy kicked out of the USA.
A typical anti-South commenter who calls himself or herself DDay wrote "Why do we have to wait for these dimwits to get their act together and secede? Why can't WE kick THEM out? It says so right in the Constitution's preamble---"In order to form a more perfect union." I can't think of a better Union than to have the backward looking, Creationist, anti-science Southern states NOT part of our Union. Just think--without these Southern cretins in OUR Congress--we might be able to pass Universal healthcare, establish a decent minimum wage for workers, strengthen union rights and give all people the right to marry who they love. Canada might start to envy US!!!"
The anti-USA secession movements are being fueled by conservatives. You might recall that tens of thousands of people in Southern states signed petitions that favored secession shortly after President Barack Obama was re-elected last year.
In recent months, conservatives in rural counties in California, Colorado, and Maryland have been so outraged by laws passed by liberal majorities in their state legislatures that they have sought to secede and form new states. The conservatives are particularly angry about laws that require background checks on people who want to buy a gun and changes in the culture, including laws that give more rights to gays (all three states have legalized gay marriages or gay civil unions in the last year).
In addition, many people who live in the conservative Upper Peninsula want to secede from relatively liberal Michigan.
The secession movement is particularly advanced in Colorado, where 11 rural counties, one which has fewer than 2,000 residents, will vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, on a resolution that advocates the formation of the state of Northern Colorado or North Colorado. A new state would have to be approved by the Colorado legislature and the U.S. Congress.
The last successful state secession movement occurred in 1863 when West Virginia seceded from Virginia, which had seceded from the entire USA along with 10 other Confederate states.
I don't think North Colorado or Northern Colorado will become the 51st state anytime soon, but I also believe that secession from the USA and secession from individual states is more likely in the next few years than at anytime since the 1861-1865 Civil War.
Secession will be a a natural by product of a total economic collapse. Some states will just simply refuse to go over the fiscal cliff and leave the union. They seceding states will reform as a new country or just be independent sovereigns. Either way they will be done with the imperfect disunion.
“give all people the right to marry who they love”
Note that they do not make any caveats for this anymore. It’s just ALL people the right to marry who they love, regardless of species, familial relationship, living status, or age.
I am all for ditching libtard America and restoring the real USA. They always say it would just be the south seceding. No, I think Alaska, and a huge chunk of the oil rich Midwest would like to tell the east-west coast turds to take a running jump too.
As soon as Texas decides to secede and before they send the one Texas Ranger over that would be necessary to seal the border, I'm in Texas.
are you in NM, LA, or OK? Just out of curiosity?
Zer0 shoots for a 3rd/unlimited term. He will have a war. As will he if he tries to disarm America or put political opposition in mass jailings.
” a man’s got to know his limitations”. Dirty Harry
Both cited Montesquieu when it came to how a nation that expected to span a continent could be ruled other than by coercion from a small, centralized, consolidated government.
The answer was to create a federated republic, IOW a republic composed of republics.
Henry assumed consolidated tyranny in the near term. Madison denied that could happen as long as there was a senate of the states.
Here in SE Ohio, deep in Applachia, the left and the right both don’t like the big fed government. Pretty much no one here wants any government meddling in their lives. Marijuana cash money pays for the healthcare down here, Obamacare is going to upset everyone. Maybe that will start a seccession movement here.
.....And he will lose for certain.
The dumbest element of the American population votes for Democrats. That's all the minorities, the mush-skulled yutes, and the hysterical single females who think abortion is the only issue all vote for Obama. Certainly all the dead weight Americans who are a huge financial drag on the country by either not working or who simply show up for work without working much all vote for Obama. We'll see all the smug liberals do when the most of their citizenry have their hands out for gibsmedat.
Maybe all of the States should just secede from the District of Criminals.
The moon uses batteries?
Bears repeating!
You forgot Arkansas.
Doesn't solve the basic problem of two distinct types of people(socialist vs. individualists) sharing a common land/govt. There needs to be a physical divide for each to "flourish" in.
Send them to Mexico.
Keep your gas tank filled...
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NM.
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