This one appears to have "the appropriate balance."
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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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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
“You’ve got plenty of SEC haters in Big 12 country too. I being among them.”
The history of the SEC’s record against the rest of the country does not lie! ;-)
Big Ten? Big 12? They are our whipping-boys! ROFL
Flame suit on!
Right? WTF? That's ok, really. Indiana is one of the best kept secrets in the country. We are quietly conservative with a very low cost of living and a lot of wide open spaces with highways that can get you just about anywhere in the state inside of about 3 hours. We have fields and forests. The people are very friendly and guns on people do not cause anxiety. Taxes are pretty reasonable here. If it weren't for Chicago, Cincinnati and Fort Wayne, we'd be Texas. :o)
BTW - we are also the most fiscally affluent state as a government as a percentage. We are operating a surplus and they keep sending us tax refunds and lowering property taxes. We just passed another income tax reduction.
A 3,500 SF house on 1/4 acre in a nice suburban neighborhood in Indianapolis only goes for $200,000 - $300,000. Get out of Indy and the same house could go for $150,000 to $200,000 with more land.
I'm ok with keeping this secret. If they kick us out of the country we don't have to pay Federal Taxes, right? Where do I sign up?
” . Maybe we should make “Monroe”, Oklahoma the new Capitol of the U.S.”
Yeah, Moore or less....
I lived just south of San Fran, CA for about 3.5 years in the late 90s. I'm a Hoosier Native (from Indiana). On no less than 2 occasions, when I told people where I was from, they said, "Oh, from East Coast?" In all three cases, the perpetrator was born and raised inside the state of California.
A colleague was from Michigan. When asked where he was from, he held up his right hand and pointed to about Grand Rapids. We laughed hysterically as the Californian's stood completely confused about what we were laughing at.
I would throw Connecticut out of the Union and I’m unfortunately a resident here.
You have some good points there. Let the seceding begin!
“ALL of New England, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis...send them to another dimension, Mars, whatever.”
They are already in another dimension, aren’t they?
“I guess it doesn’t take much to be a writer for Business Insider. “
Someday we’ll find out... when they get their first writer.
So far everything I’ve read there could have been generated by faulty electrical termination on a network transceiver — the modern equivalent of a bunch of monkeys with a bunch of typewriters.
My daughter drove from Seattle, WA to Wilmington, NC two years ago. It took her three days longer than she expected it to! Montana and the Dakotas and all that? REALLY BIG.
My brother graduated from Arkansas. When Mizzou was in their lame duck season in the Big 12, Coach Crapforbrains was arrested for a DUI. My brother said, “Mizzou is clearly not ready for the SEC.” The implication was that an SEC coach or player may get arrested for DUI, but it would never be in the paper. Thus the advantage the SEC holds over other conferences.
Color me SHOCKED that the people’s socialist republiK of Illinois isn’t on that list......
Who made this list?
It should be California, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Colorado, Minnesota and New Hampshire.
Take all those big spending, big regulating liberal lunatics with them.
Maine and/or Texas/Arkansas/Oklahoma so I would have some place to move and be free.
Since none of them have the balls to secede, maybe, God willing, the rest of the country could just kick them out of the union.
You beat me to it. Exactly the ones I picked including the bonus.
I looked it up and there really is a Monroe, Ok. It’s down near Poteau at the base of Sugar Loaf Mountain. It would be a nice place for a capital.
Iirc, she thought 3 days. When, at the end of the second day, she was still in Montana ...
Then her transmission fell out in Iowa, she lost a day. Fortunately, people in Iowa are very nice, and they helped out a stranded service member on Labor Day. I was having kittens there in Wilmington as all this went down.
I knew you were referring to The O’s misnaming of Moore. Still way to close to TX.
(Cain’t seem to get them riled today.)
This one appears to have "the appropriate balance."
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