[Ode To Ted Kennedys Liver]

Overweening federal control could very well spark another secessionist movement, this time with much different results.

I agree that big government is taking over Americans' lives more than ever before, but I think this new internal war will not be regional, but will be fought by the scattered masses of freedom-minded individuals from all over our great nation.

[IronJack]

These days a regional war isn't likely. But if we could move the present-day geography back 150 years, the New Confederacy would likely consist of all the Old Confederacy plus most of the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. About all that would be left of the Union would be the Northeast and the West Coast.

But the sentiment would be far from universal in ANY of the regions. Even Massachusetts has a few conservatives, and even Utah has a token liberal or two. Heck, Nebraska has up-Chuck Hagel!