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| New Colorado? Rural voters approve secession idea |
| 2013-11-13 |
| [APNEWS.MYWAY] The nation's newest state, if rural Colorado residents had their way, would be about the size of Vermont but with the population of a small town spread across miles of farmland. There wouldn't be civil unions for gay couples, legal recreational marijuana, new renewable energy standards, or limits on ammunition magazines. After all, those were some of the reasons five counties on the state's Eastern Plains voted on Election Day to approve the creation of a 51st state in the first place. Secession supporters know the votes were symbolic, designed to grab the attention of a Democratic-controlled Legislature. They say the vote results emphasize a growing frustration in conservative prairie towns with the more populous and liberal urban Front Range, which has helped solidify the Democrats' power. "We can't outvote the metropolitan areas anymore, and the rural areas don't have a voice anymore," said Perk Odell, 80, a lifelong resident of Akron in Washington County, which voted to secede. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 80% of Colorado's Ag production is in those counties, as well as a majority of the petroleum production (including Nat Gas) in the state. They leave, all of a sudden they don't have liberals in Boulder and Denver tying their hands on enviro restrictions that are worse than Fed ones. But the real change here is water rights - the Platte river feeds a lot of Denver's suburbs. And it gets diverted from Ag to do that. If this becomes a state, the Denver metro area will have to go hunting for water. I hope they find a way to follow through on and leave the mob rule behind and put forth a government that is a republic. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2013-11-13 20:25 |
| #9 They should blockade the cities for a couple of days and see if the power shifts a little. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2013-11-13 12:18 |
| #8 No comment from the Mayor of Murdertropolis the Capital of NoGunYa |
| Posted by: airandee 2013-11-13 12:04 |
| #7 The Urban party that can't create its own food, energy, reduce its own waste, and somehow moves all the icky stuff elsewhere (NIMBY). True, so, they will take what they need by force. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2013-11-13 11:43 |
| #6 It'd sure be nice to have a couple of those folks in the US Senate. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-11-13 11:25 |
| #5 Ref #4: The Chicago democratic machine and poverty stricken downstate Illinois being a very good example. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-13 09:07 |
| #4 Secession will most likely not succeed but the effort certainly does make a statement about large blue liberal urban areas that dictate to the rest of us. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-11-13 09:03 |
| #3 The Urban party that can't create its own food, energy, reduce its own waste, and somehow moves all the icky stuff elsewhere (NIMBY). Katrina showed, it can't last more than two or three days without starting to implode when them rural thingies don't show up regularly. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-11-13 08:49 |
| #2 "We can't outvote the metropolitan areas anymore, and the rural areas don't have a voice anymore," But, but, but this has been the plan of the Party of Urban America for decades. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-13 06:36 |
| #1 Meanwhile, not to be outdone by Long Island, or twas it Manhattan ...??? * NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO [NPR.org] > FORGET THE 50 STATES [57 States?], THE US IS REALLY ELEVEN NATIONS, AUTHOR SAYS. To include most of upper Mexico = "EL NORTE", + CENTRAL CANADA TO HUDSON BAY. versus * FREEREPUBLIC > [Lee Martell] FORGET PUERTO RICO [aka Castroite Cuba/Quba-lite]- ITS CLEAR THE PHILIPPINES SHOULD BECOME OUR 51ST STATE. OH YEAH! versus * OTOH WORLD MILITARY FORUM > GLOBAL TIMES: PHILIPPINES' "MANILA TIMES": SCHOLAR SAYS PHILIPPINES SEAS + LUZON STRAITS CRUX/CENTER FOR CHINA'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS IN EAST ASIA. PHILIPPINES HAS NO ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE [ASW] CAPABILITY, WHILE TAIWAN'S IS LIMITED. * IIRC MARIANAS VARIETY > OP-ED: REUNIFICATION AND STATEHOOD FOR MARIANAS IS THE [final = ultimate] GOAL.- |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-11-13 00:21 |