[Puppage]

Yeah, this will go over well. Remember the last time this was tried...1861?

[tpaine]

Yeah, this will go over well. Remember the last time this was tried...1861?
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You've got it backwards.
The 'free state' citizens would be insisting that the feds honor our constitution.
-- They would NOT be in rebellion against its principles.

[A.J.Armitage]

Actually 1861 was something altogether different.

The last (and as far as I know only) time this was tried was lefties moving to Vermont. It worked.

[archy]

Yeah, this will go over well. Remember the last time this was tried...1861?

No, the last time this was tried was in Vermont, in the late 1960s-early 1970s. It took several decades for them to achieve many of the results they'd hoped for, but they've accomplished many of them, and they're still at it, trying to turn the place into the most accomodating pismire colony of liberal socialists possible.

That's one reason Vermont has been picked as one possible FSP project state, and IMHO, the one in which it's most likely that violence will occur from those already entrenched there should the porcupines come nosing about to upset their applecart.

For that reason among others, it's not way up there on my list of best choice, though I'm hardly one to avoid a scrap, even if it's a potential bloody one. But that's the only state of the *top ten* to which I feel the sometimes-heard phrase *target state* really applies.

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