let LIBERTY come & SOON,sw
You are just saying that because you think you could convince them to adopt your daring and innovative new rules of capitalization and punctuation.
In the unlikely event that our country split apart, the fragments would either sink into decay or fall under the influence of the European Community or whatever the new world power would be. Break up this country and you inevitably doom what remains of the American ethos from playing much of a role in the world or even holding its own at home. You would either opt out of the global economy and grow poorer and more isolated and inbred or remain in the world economic system under terms set by the new ruling powers.
Talk of America becoming a "colony of the world" would then be even truer. So when the Gulf Coast becomes the North shore of a Latin lake and your poor Blacks and Whites are angry about Mexican labor and European or South American bosses, you will regret today's bravado.
Die-hards who are always complaining about their state or local Republican or Democratic parties and the "country club" types fail to realize that after secession those would still be the people running things. Freed from having to keep up their end of the North-South opposition and given an independent country to rule over, Southern political elites would demonstrate their true liberal leanings. Perhaps they could save the new country from falling too much under foreign domination, but the price would be becoming more like European and Latin American elites in order to compete with them more effectively and cope with the new Eurocentric world.
But then your last comment reveals you to be a quixotic utopian, so I don't think you'd agree.
YES, i do believe that those of us from the old rebel families will have MUCH to say about writing the Confederation Documents that will form the basis of a new, and much improved, SR. AND we southrons have learned much about how to improve our new country by WATCHING the damnyankees ruin what USED TO BE the best nation on earth. hopefully, we will not make the same mistakes as the socialist, damnyankee-controlled, "new & modern amerika" has made since the FDR administration.
i am hardly a "country clubber", though, as i have a job in the HVAC service business & am a retired LEO!
do i detect a bit of the usual and pervasive damnyankee RACISM in your response? your "latin lake" comment makes me squeamish, as BOTH of my much-beloved daughters are adopted from foreign countries and BOTH are beautiful,multi-talented,educated,well-dressed,intelligent,well-spoken, lady-like and religious. NO MAN could ask for more from ANY daughter! BOTH are MUCH smarter than their old man, being engineers (MSEE & MSCE!).
as for my "creative" spelling/capitalization, well you'll get used to it OR you'll quit reading my posts. frankly, i don't care a damn what you or any other FReeper thinks about that subject.
for a FREE dixie REPUBLIC while i'm young enough to enjoy it,sw
longterm,i believe that NA will have the following nations:Azatlan,Canada,Mexico,Repulique Quebecois,Southron Republic & the USA.
NONE of the nations will be destroyed by being FREE;none will sink due to having too much diversity of form;three may be destroyed/splintered by trying to keep the staus quo AND by failing to free their minorities, which otherwise,longterm, might become trading partners and good neighboors!
for a free dixie,sw
Each new "country" would quickly reflect it's own cultural, economic, and political ideology.
Throw in treaties for commerce and mutual defense and the world would turn away from it's present globalist/socialist path.
This could be done in the present United "States" if the Constitution was honored.
Liberty is a virus that, unfortunately, is hard to catch and easy to destroy.
Pardon my quixotic moment for the day, I just had to let it out.