[zeestephen]

Re: “Me? Well, I’m just waiting for the REAL sparks to fly.”

I am hoping for a peaceful division of the former “United” States.

Economically, it took the Old South a hundred years to recover from our last disagreement.

[ducttape45]

I'm to the point where I have to agree.

Give the land that California, Washington, Oregon to the leftists and say, "here ya go, set up your lefist utopia, see how long it lasts."

Leave the rest of the country to the moral, conservative, right-thinking people who know how to run a country correctly. We'll see who outlasts who.

[Nellie Wilkerson]

Economically, it took the Old South a hundred years to recover from our last disagreement.

Largely because economic oppression continued for several generations after the war, from both public and private polices.

Here's one way that was done:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~cescott/history/freight.html