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No less an authority than Dr. Walter Williams ( the self proclaimed very handsome former King of the Department of Economics at Geo. Mason Univ ) has recently called for a divorce most civil-while that is still possible! He wrote a very serious column about this and it did not sound so very strange. That is scary.

I think one reason it sounds a lot more normal nowadays is that the world has spent the last decade or so rearranging borders in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, etc., and so it becomes less of a shock to think of tinkering with our own borders.

Is it so scary? Let us imagine an America of the year 2015, or so. There will be four major ethnic groups (whites, Hispanics, blacks, asians). Neither one will particularly like the other and would want to take America in different directions. Everyhting would be called into question, economic issues, the legal system, the medical system, foreign policy etc. At this point there would be little agreement on these issues and each group will not feel satisfied with the government, because it is not "their" government. Right now, the whites control everyhting because they have the bulk of the population. This will be less and less the case as time goes on. They will have to give up more and more ground, and they will not like it. The "minorities" will get tired of playing "second-fiddle" to the whites and want to make their "own" decisions, like the South did in 1860. What would be done in a situation like that? One of the reasons the Soviet Union broke up is because the Russian element of the population became less of a percentage overall and the minority percentage increased, making it much more difficult to keep the Soviet Union together. What would happen in a future America with a decrease in the percentage of the white population combined with a dramatic increase in the non-white percentage? Would America still stay together?