Mayors Want To Turn Florida Into Two States

CBS4.com ^ | 5/6/2008 | CBS4

[RepublitarianRoger2]

I suggested the motto: "North Cuba"

[Paradox]

As goofy as this sounds, there is some merit to it. North Florida is to South Florida, as Georgia is to New York.

[HamiltonJay]

Florida... that’s America’s wang.

[Red Badger]

I’LL VOTE FOR IT!!!!!..............

[Prov1322]

Actually, Florida has been two states for a long time...

[Gay State Conservative]

Great! Two more RATS in the Senate.Then we can make DC a state,split CA in two and make Boston and Cambridge a state and the Senate will be bleeped into the 23rd Century.

[Terpfen]

The quad-county area practically is a separate country anyway...

[Red Badger]

We keep FSU, UCF and UF, they get Miami Hurricanes......

[contemplator]

North Florida is to South Florida, as Georgia is to New York.

For a while yet at least. The retirees and urban sprawl is creeping ever northward. It is only a matter of time.

[Centurion2000]

The City of North Lauderdale is taking a tough stance on home rule, and because of this they are spearheading an effort to split Florida into two states. They have passed a resolution, asking that a boundary line to split South Florida from the rest of the state be drawn at the Palm Beach County line. They're taking it so seriously that they want counties in South Florida, such as Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe to join in supporting them.

Congress' and the State Legislature's consent are needed for this. If they think a democrat owned Congress is going to go for this, they are smoking crack.

[camle]

two states, sure. florida and floriDUH!

[Red Badger]

From West Palm Beach to Key West and across to Fort Meyers can be Liberalia.............

[mickeylee]

I hope they are successful so that it will set a precedent and we then we can split California in half!

[Natchez Hawk]

two states? Hell why not three or fifteen.

[rocksblues]

I want New Jersey to go for this also. Take Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City, Essex County, Passaic County and Hudson County and let them be New Jersey. Let the rest become the Garden State.

[gridlock]

That way the Democrat Party can disenfranchise both of them!

Maybe the Northern Counties can just join Georgia...

[lormand]

My kids have never seen a beach, so I am taking them to the Redneck Riviera in June.

[Red Badger]

If they think a democrat owned Congress is going to go for this, they are smoking crack.

They probably are smoking crack, and the Dems would love it.......Two guaranteed liberal senators and several more liberal representatives in the House.........

[mnehring]

If it wasn't for that pesky Constitution.

Section III. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

[Red Badger]

There was a move to try and split California into 3 states......