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2020-11-02 -Land of the Free

The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious

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Posted by 746 2020-11-02 00:25|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 This is what happens when a dozen or so major metro areas think they should run the country.

They don't and think for a moment what it takes to provide energy, food, commerce to such a concentration of population.

The last time they tried that approach one of the major states in the game lost a lot of counties. They try it again, most will lose a lot of counties.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-11-02 05:24|| 2020-11-02 05:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The US used to be much more divided but the drafts in WW-1 and WW-II changed that. You can see it in the old movies... A southerner from New Orleans becoming a life long friend of a man from NY City on the battle field.
The removal of the draft with the end of the Vietnam war ended this positive mixing of the regions.

Posted by 3dc 2020-11-02 06:29|| 2020-11-02 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a smaller world now.

Posted by Clem 2020-11-02 07:33|| 2020-11-02 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The big divide is within the states, not between them. Urban vs the rest.

Posted by Phereth Lover of the Huns1296 2020-11-02 09:21|| 2020-11-02 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ended this positive mixing of the regions.
And arguably, of the races.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-11-02 09:35|| 2020-11-02 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, well.
Don't let the screen door hit you on the butt on your way out.

Posted by ed in texas 2020-11-02 10:37|| 2020-11-02 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 WWII was much, MUCH more a watershed for race relations than I think is understood.

As for "secession" -- the problem is the left's intolerance and demand for absolute power. Break them and they'll learn better.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-11-02 11:36|| 2020-11-02 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Start getting rid of electoral college and smaller states have no reason to be overruled by the high population density areas. This is not recent. This was gone over by the founders of the constitution. Mess with the constitution at your own personal peril.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-11-02 12:40|| 2020-11-02 12:40|| Front Page Top

#9 I think these idiots will shut up when the county-by-county voting maps come out and they realize they are city-states in a sea of red counties that would not join their secessionist fantasies.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-02 13:21|| 2020-11-02 13:21|| Front Page Top

#10 City states will realize how vulnerable they are when truckers don’t deliver and no electricity or water is received. They will be SOL.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-11-02 14:32|| 2020-11-02 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Balkanisation of the northern hemisphere would invite the Chinese to own the Pacific and in time the People’s Republic of Kaliphornia. If you think white people are racist folks, orders of magnitude on that axis would be a revelation.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-11-02 19:13|| 2020-11-02 19:13|| Front Page Top

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