Posted on 11/17/2004 8:30:09 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--The 2004 Presidential election may be decided, but that doesn't mean everyone is pleased.
The divide between the red and the blue states (states were divided by color depending on whether they voted Republican or Democrat) seems to run even deeper than simple political lines. Some Cornell University students are looking to help New York secede from the Union.
"After the election we were all sitting around commiserating in the office and conversation turned to this divide between the red and blue states," said Harsh Vishwasrao, a graduate student in the applied and engineering physics department at Cornell University.
Vishwasrao says the ideas to create a flag contest for a new United States of Canada and to write a letter of secession to Paul Martin, the Prime Minister of Canada, about their plan were the brainchild of post-doctoral students Rebecca Williams and Liz Rhoades.
The students are currently working on a draft of their letter to Martin and plan to include a copy of the winning flag from the contest.
There is no criteria for the flags other than that the blue states join Canada and the red states remain on their own.
"There is a flag with a Smurf holding the Canadian maple leaf," Vishwasrao said. "Some flags are serious, some are whimsical."
Passersby simply put a checkmark on the bulletin board to indicate their choice judge the flags, and judging follows an honor code.
"We hold an honor code that you only vote once, which didn't hold in our election, but we hope will hold in our flag selection," Vishwasrao said, adding that judging seems to be wrapping up this week.
He added that there is no formal statement that the group is trying to make. The whole contest originated from a casual observation of the division of the United States in terms of politics.
"The thing that was really interesting," Vishwasrao said, "was that after this came about I was talking to a friend on the Internet who was sitting in an office in Seattle who said, 'We had the same idea over here.' So we're not just the local leftist nuts."
Vishwasrao stresses that the division of the Democrat and Republican states has been present "since the Civil War" and is not something new over the past two presidential elections.
"The blue states have more in common with the political ideology of Canada than we do with the red states. Make of that what you will," he said. "It's not treason or anything; we're not saying it's a serious course of action."
What? A blue state democrat acknowledging the rampant vote fraud and multiple voting practiced by the democrat vote fraud machine in his state?
NYC ought to be permitted to secede. If we act now, I doubt there will be much opposition from anyone.
"...Harsh Vishwasrao..."
Foreign student? Naturalized? Does he understand the term sedition?
"...Harsh Vishwasrao..."
Foreign student? Naturalized? Does he understand the term sedition?
Where is Candada?
Canada's loss is America's gain.
Oh, that's proof of that, for sure. No leftist nuts in Seattle, no way no how.
So is it ok to call these folks unpatriotic now?
They are free to leave but they are not free to take any of the republics land with them.
Near tiajunna. Don't bring your beeber through Customes.
In my view they should be arrested for plotting to overthrow the government.
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!
Move away, already!!!
"O was some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!"
Even the blue states had a lot of rec counties in them. Let the blue counties secede. One major benefit would be a big decrease in crime.
Hold on a goldurned minute.
Check the size of the RED swath from Coast to Coast.
Only the RED COUNTIES in the BLUE states may petition to seceded.
No, only BLUE PRECINCTS can petitition to secede.
No, only BLUE VOTERS in Precincts may secede.
OK all you blue voters - lock your doors and hibernate - you have seceded.
If NY seceded, that would almost guarantee Republican presidents from now 'till the end of time. Go for it, dudes!
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