Let the Worst States Secede--Goodbye South Carolina, Arizona, and Texas

[Ben]

Wow. What's the analog to Bush Derangement Syndrome that explains this?

http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Jamie-Stiehm/2010/08/09/Let-the-Worst-States-Secede-Goodbye-South-Carolina-Arizona-and-Texas

[seeker_two]

Fine by me....and we'll take our oil wells, refineries, and commercial ports with us....

Hope you Yankees like cold winters.... 

[kgbsquirrel]

Soo... they want us to leave? Quick, lets skedadle before they realize they're kicking the productive ones out of this money pit! I'm sure they wont mind if other "problem children" like Montana and Alaska scoot too. 

[Nightfall]

Well if you guys are leaving the party, it's just not a party anymore. I'm going too! 

[Jamisjockey]

The coasts think that middle America could split off and leave them better to run the Liberal utopia....Now that I live in Texas, I welcome the idea 

[zahc]

The more I think about it, the more I feel that this would be the absolute best-case scenario for our country. It would be a like a political pressure release valve. I think that TX should begin building momentum toward secession as soon as possible.

[longeyes]

Well, some said I was crazy when I began talking up the S-word a long time ago...

But, hey, when the exit finally begins--and it will--it won't stop with SC, AZ, and TX.  Right now, for the wanker left, this is satire.  It won't sound so funny a year from now.

[French G.]

Ok, here's the deal. We'll give NoVa to Maryland and execute 12 possibly guilty people in the electric chair if it makes us bad enough to leave too. 

[Tallpine]

The marraige is long over.

Just haven't done the paperwork yet.

[TommyGunn]

What a snarky, hateful article.

Geeesh.  I mean, just because some states actually recognize that this country has problems and they're being ignored by the putzes in D.C.

[Gowen]

The south said it would rise again.... 



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[Boomhauer]

Screw you guys, I'm going home!

We'll keep our beautiful beaches and our nice cities (our large cities still aren't hotbeds of murder and crime like many of the "good" liberal cities) and tell the leftists to GTFO.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Empty talk.  Nobody's gonna secede.

[Waitone]

Secession ain't gonna happen.  But maybe, just maybe we can start a movement to fixing the long term damage created by the 17th amendment.  Returning to the days of senators being an employee of the state they represent will go a long ways in fixing intractable problems.   

[seeker_two]

Empty talk.  Nobody's gonna be allowed by the Federalist Socialist People's Empire to secede.

FIFY....

[S. Williamson]

Well, some said I was crazy when I began talking up the S-word a long time ago...

But, hey, when the exit finally begins--and it will--it won't stop with SC, AZ, and TX.  Right now, for the wanker left, this is satire.  It won't sound so funny a year from now.

You're still crazy. 

But you might have a point.

[Monkeyleg]

I've wanted this country to split for a long time, but there's no simple way to do it.

As for the writer, if she has a problem with Lindsay Graham, how does she feel about conservatives?

[longeyes]

Secession can take many forms.  It can be formal or informal, bloody or bloodless.  It can be customary rather than legal.  It may amount to an increasing volume of underground economy and a sporadic substrate of anarchy.  Whatever's coming it won't be Obama's utopia.

[wquay]

The best hope for this country is a return to state's rights, i.e. limited secession. That article, and the responses in this thread, give me hope that we're moving in that direction. We just need a governor with the guts to do it.

[TommyGunn]

Secession ain't gonna happen.  But maybe, just maybe we can start a movement to fixing the long term damage created by the 17th amendment.  Returning to the days of senators being an employee of the state they represent will go a long ways in fixing intractable problems.   

+100000000  !!!

[MechAg94]

It would be interesting if all the Gulf Coast states separated and put their own export fees on oil flowing North.  Do you think the East and West coasts would actually consider off shore drilling then?

[taurusowner]

Well, Texas and Arizona were already on my list of places to apply for LEO jobs once I get back from Afghaniland.  This bumps them up a notch 

[Tallpine]

The USSR will never break up either 

[Nitrogen]

I'd live in any of those states if they left the union, and were headed by real conservatives, instead of intolerant blowhards.

Texas and other southern states have a LOT they can teach California, NY, etc.  This also doesn't mean that those states don't have a lot they could teach us, either.

Personally, I think one of the things that made this country great is it's political diversity.  The  Californias keeps the Texases from going way too far to the right, and the Texases keeps Californias from turning into the soviet union.

The fact that we need to convince everyone that something is a good idea keeps this country a better place.

At least it has until the last 10 years, when nobody wants to listen to anyone anymore.

[MechAg94]

I don't think the level of discourse in this country was ever all that high, but there isn't much of it these days in a lot of places. 

However, I think most of that is just the hard core activists defending their guy or their issue no matter what and the 24/7 media playing along.