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Mayors Want To Turn Florida Into Two States
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| 5/6/2008
| CBS4
Posted on 05/06/2008 11:42:12 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: rocksblues
When I was a kid there was serious talk about breaking out the Delaware Valley...South Jersey, Philly, Wilmington and the rest of DE. As much as the folks I knew resented North Jersey there was no way they wanted to be tied to Philly so it never went anywhere.
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:11:12 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: JulieRNR21; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; Goldwater Girl; windchime; ...
Florida Freeper
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:11:19 PM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: camle
Floridumb
The Snowbird State
Southern Ohio
To: Vigilanteman
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:13:55 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Folks we are in trouble, "Mark Levin" 03/26/08)
To: Paradox; qam1; mnehrling; Centurion2000
Noth Florida is to South Florida as Georgia is to New York.Florida is far from the only state split along these demographic and urban/suburban/rural kinds of lines. New York has NYC, NYC suburbs, and "upstate." Illinois has Chicago, Chicago suburbs, and "downstate." Michigan has Detroit, its suburbs, and the rest of the state. Pennsylvania has Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the rest of the state.
So there is nothing very unusual about part of a state talking about secession from the rest of it. However, it has actually come to pass just once, or possibly twice, in American history. And it took a Civil War for West Virginia to secede from Virgina.
The founding fathers were wise to put the provision requiring congressional approval in the Constitution, although perhaps they could have done better by requiring a supermajority of Congress.
To: jeffDavis1861
You mention making D.C. a state. I am in greatly in favor of that. Give D.C. Prince George and Montgomery counties from Maryland. Maryland would then become a red state. Everyone wins. even better...give them NOVA too. That way VA becomes a red state again.
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:25:15 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: gridlock
“Maybe the Northern Counties can just join Georgia...”
Trade Miami for Atlanta? No way.
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:25:22 PM PDT
by
bobjam
To: Red Badger
We keep FSU, UCF and UF, they get Miami Hurricanes...... They get South Beach, Coconut Grove, and Key West, and we get Disney World, Universal Studios, and Cape Canaveral?
-PJ
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:31:43 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
To: Political Junkie Too
We keep the Jaguars, maybe the Buccaneers and they keep the Dolphins.......
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:33:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Gay State Conservative
Great! Two more RATS in the Senate.One more, but we'd also get one more Republican. Bill Nelson lives in Miami, so we'd be able to elect another Republican Senator in the new state of North Florida.
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:33:20 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: dr.zaeus
It’s also the only state that legally had the right to secede in 1860...
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:37:12 PM PDT
by
Keith
(ANY REPUBLICAN in 2008 -- it's about defeating lefty surrender-monkeys like Obama)
To: RepublitarianRoger2
I’m from North Florida and I would support it.
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: RepublitarianRoger2
The Democrats want South Florida? I can remember how many times they've kicked about North California secession. To no avail.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
05/06/2008 12:55:33 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: RepublitarianRoger2
I would like to split California into two states Left california and Right California
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:02:50 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(It would be insane to vote for Hussein)
To: RepublitarianRoger2
I suggested the motto: "North Cuba"The State of Free Cuba.
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:06:36 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: mnehrling
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.Which means that West Virginia is unconstitutional.
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:08:19 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: NonValueAdded
I rememberwhen Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran for Mayor of New York and City Council President on the platform of makng the city the 51st state.
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:09:33 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: Tanniker Smith
It used to be New York City and Upstate, but theyve started creeping northward along the Hudson.Which is why we must never let libeals get rich.
Which you would think is against their principles anyway.
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:11:20 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: Dilbert San Diego
Given that Illinois already has two liberal Democratic Senators, splitting off Chicago from the rest of the state would actually probably result in the new State consisisting of Downstate Illinois electing two Republican Senators, while Chicago would continue to elect the two we have now.
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:14:26 PM PDT
by
RonF
To: The Pack Knight
Didnt stop West Virginia.Nor Maine from splitting off from Massachusetts.
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posted on
05/06/2008 1:14:27 PM PDT
by
TBP
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