Posted on 10/22/2014 8:57:43 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
A resolution to split the state of Florida in two has passed in the city of South Miami, the newspaper in South Miami the Sun-Sentinel reported.
The officials voted 3-2 in favor of making South Florida the 51st state, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
The city's Vice Mayor Walter Harris stated that the capitol doesn't provide South Florida with the proper representation and doesn't address the specific concerns like the sea level rising. The mayor supported the secession too.
Those opposed to the idea said that this vote sets a precedent for parts of cities to break away if need be.
The northern border of the new state would be Brevard, Orange, Polk, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, the Sentinel reported. The new state would include 24 counties total.
For the secession to be enacted it would need electorate approval from the entire state as well as the Congressional approval, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
I doubt Hillsborough or Polk wants to be associated with Miami...
Heck, the Cubans in Ybor City can’t even agree with the ones in Miami on the proper way to make a Cuban sandwich.
So far only the South Miami city commission has voted. Realistically, it’s going nowhere.
The problem with liberals is that, while they may wish to govern with liberalism as their ideology, they need to impose their control over the more productive members of societies,those being the republicans and conservatives.
Without those who produce, liberalism would arrive at a quick death on its own.
If Florida could split into 2 states, and each state were to divide the people along political lines, then,I’d be all for it, and I’d be living in the conservative new state, while watching the liberal new state dissolve into 3rd world status.
Florida... Key West wanted to become their own country too...
ooooooooooooooh third world countries are gonna be so mad at you!
They aren’t called Floridiots for nothing.
Exactly. I see no down side.
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