Posted on 05/29/2013 9:58:03 AM PDT by blam
The 7 States That The Rest Of America Would Like To Kick Out Of the Country
Walter Hickey
May 29, 2013, 11:10 AM
An AskReddit thread yesterday polled Americans about which state they would remove from the union.
The answers were diverse and had a number of thought processes behind them — which states had the least people, which states contributed least to the country, which could survive on their own, and which state was Mississippi — and in the end a lot of people made a lot of sense.
Here are the states most Americans would love to see go:
7. Delaware.
First in, first out. Redditors alleged there's not much important there.
However, "Lots of companies are incorporated there. Sure, they could just move to another tax haven, but it would be a rough transition and they would lose out on the decades of case law that the state has on the subject of corporations.
6. Florida
This is most likely the result of the adventures of Florida Man and a desire to make elections easier.
Georgians spoke out in its defense as a functional Hurricane-shield.
5. Rhode Island
Rhode Island's departure would offend a minimal amount of people and shed a minimal amount of space.
"I had a professor in college from there and said that milkshakes are referred to as "cabinets." Who the hell does that?" Williston, North Dakota
3-4 (TIE). Either Dakota
One work-around solution was to combine North and South Dakota into a single Super Dakota.
While some Americans actually doubted the existence of North Dakota and proposed to strike it anyway, others pointed out that its absence would be noted
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I think Texas should absolutely be kicked out. I hereby vote ourselves off the island! Thank you!
With our Republican governor and supermajorities in both branches of the legislature, I think we'd love to offload the federal overhead.
You’ve got plenty of SEC haters in Big 12 country too. I being among them.
Yeah. Dem geographers figure Idaho should go too, because of Cincinnati and Cleveland and Des Moines.
Texas is the easiest game in that stretch..Mack Brown gets fired..
Kinda reminds me of 1862
He needs to be. No one has squandered as much as he’s been given. Every player we get (We being OSU) from Texas (which is about 80% of our team) really wanted to play in Austin. It’s the same for OU. He’s washed up.
This was a survey asked of people on Reddit. Redditors consist of “Libertarians,” Liberals, and Millenials. You don’t get much in the way of conservative discussion from Reddit.
Yes. And I’m from Oregon. Colorado has worked hard in recent years to displace one of those also.
I’m all for the separation of city and state.
Hear, hear!
They can just stay in liberal lala-land while we enjoy living in God's country without them!
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Because all 3 export huge numbers of Blue voters here to PA once the taxes get out of control at home. Then they elect more Democrats and inflict this on all the rest of us.
“Give West Camden (aka Philadelphia) to New Jersey, then kick the PRNJ out of the country.”
Thank you for bringing up the most corrupt state in the union! New Jersey is a festering boil on the a$$ of the country.
I will never forget an evening drive from Newark to Allentown and watching a NJ State Trooper using radar from the sunken. grass covered median come boiling up blue lights a blazing to chase down one of the cars in front of me only to over play his move, spin across both lanes and crash his cruiser on the opposite side of the road! And don’t you just love those “Hugo Boss early Nazi style hats” the troopers wear.
-Roll Tide-
” Would that be California, Washington, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland?”
Uh, yep.
We get most of the oil,wheat and the decent people...and they get Oakland,Detroit,the Bronx and Mexico.
And most of the "most vulnerable among us".
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