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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-10-09 02:39 PM
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36. You don't think the former confederacy is diverse?
I've seen large interracial groups socializinf in the former confederacy.

Black people and white people in most of California barely talk to each other. :(
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  -what is the value of remaining the "united" states? RainDog  Jul-10-09 01:05 PM   #0 
  - Suppressing extremism (at the cost of preventing progress)  Oregone   Jul-10-09 01:08 PM   #1 
  - well, if Texas and LA and Florida and South Carolina wanted to be govt  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:17 PM   #8 
  - The confederacy was not and would not be landlocked.  Warren Stupidity   Jul-10-09 01:51 PM   #21 
  - Im talking about states like Montana, Idaho, Utah, Dakotas, Nebraska  Oregone   Jul-10-09 02:19 PM   #26 
     - The eastern european (at least some of them) countries  Warren Stupidity   Jul-10-09 02:23 PM   #28 
     - And in some places, the most viable job is being a child prostitute  Oregone   Jul-10-09 02:31 PM   #30 
        - The albatross stinks but chucking it could be worse?  Warren Stupidity   Jul-10-09 03:37 PM   #39 
     - You might want to look at this map outlined in the book "The Nine Nations of North America."  Selatius   Jul-10-09 07:01 PM   #43 
        - This version is somewhat more faithful to the original  KamaAina   Jul-10-09 07:32 PM   #49 
           - Out here in West Texas we're in the breadbasket  Yupster   Jul-10-09 10:43 PM   #53 
  - "The west coast" would consist of a narrow crust of coastal counties  XemaSab   Jul-10-09 02:34 PM   #32 
  - Some of us don't want to move  get the red out   Jul-10-09 01:08 PM   #2 
  - I didn't specify any regions. there are conservatives and liberals in various places  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:12 PM   #3 
  - United we stand, divided we fall. Strength in numbers. Didn't you study civics????  kestrel91316   Jul-10-09 01:12 PM   #4 
  - I don't think a more liberal america would fail. not so sure about the other one.  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:15 PM   #6 
  - That is simply a platitude.  Warren Stupidity   Jul-10-09 01:19 PM   #10 
  - The point is, we are already divided. And falling. nt  RaleighNCDUer   Jul-10-09 02:17 PM   #25 
  - with republican mouthpieces openly wishing for the US to fail  RainDog   Jul-10-09 02:23 PM   #27 
  - not to mention  paulsby   Jul-10-09 05:37 PM   #40 
     - Yes - this is the reason why we shouldn't vote to leave the union  Yupster   Jul-10-09 10:46 PM   #54 
  - lol. an "unrec" for posing a question?  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:14 PM   #5 
  - a buck two fitty?  Warren Stupidity   Jul-10-09 01:16 PM   #7 
  - lol. 25 dollahs, according to Tom Waits. n/t  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:19 PM   #9 
  - because if conservatives had their own country  Soylent Brice   Jul-10-09 01:22 PM   #11 
  - it would be MAD cause the world would rain down some hell on a first strike  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:26 PM   #13 
  - Let Michigan become a Canadian province.....  marmar   Jul-10-09 01:23 PM   #12 
  - I bet MI would be better off as part of Canada. n/t  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:27 PM   #14 
  - As a Michigan resident, I'd happily join Canada.  Vidar   Jul-10-09 02:36 PM   #34 
  - I'd move to Michigan too  RainDog   Jul-10-09 02:46 PM   #38 
  - Think the Canadians would be out of their minds  Thothmes   Jul-10-09 06:54 PM   #41 
     - Not at all.  roamer65   Jul-10-09 07:47 PM   #50 
  - Governor Perry?  NeedleCast   Jul-10-09 01:28 PM   #15 
  - last time I checked, it was okay for a liberal to ask a question  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:35 PM   #18 
  - Rightwingers have been talking for decades bout dismantling the US  struggle4progress   Jul-10-09 01:31 PM   #16 
  - 1. I would have to move.  Kazak   Jul-10-09 01:32 PM   #17 
  - I still don't see any answers that address the value of remaining as we are  RainDog   Jul-10-09 01:41 PM   #19 
  - Because in a functioning society, the fringe always defines the debate.  Robb   Jul-10-09 01:46 PM   #20 
     - what do you have to back up that statement?  RainDog   Jul-10-09 02:07 PM   #23 
     - Diversity has intrinsic value - and the liberal states would remain  RaleighNCDUer   Jul-10-09 02:25 PM   #29 
        - You don't think the former confederacy is diverse?  XemaSab   Jul-10-09 02:39 PM   #36 
           - That's because they think racism is a problem exclusive to the Former Confederacy.  Selatius   Jul-10-09 07:05 PM   #44 
              - As my former US History teacher put it:  XemaSab   Jul-10-09 09:38 PM   #52 
  - that is just a nonstarter as you should know.  PretzelWarrior   Jul-10-09 01:52 PM   #22 
  - so how to you fix the problems?  RainDog   Jul-10-09 02:12 PM   #24 
  - Balkanization makes it easier for the corporatists to cause a race to the bottom.  Odin2005   Jul-10-09 02:31 PM   #31 
  - if the right wingers had to put up or shut up with their constituencies  RainDog   Jul-10-09 02:38 PM   #35 
  - Because you don't get to "drop out" just because you don't like the current administration  scheming daemons   Jul-10-09 02:36 PM   #33 
  - no. I know that states are purple.  RainDog   Jul-10-09 02:41 PM   #37 
  - The United States will eventually disintegrate at some point or another. All great powers collapse.  Selatius   Jul-10-09 06:58 PM   #42 
  - The big issues will reach us no matter where we go.  Forkboy   Jul-10-09 07:09 PM   #45 
  - Quite. in a thousand years it'll be 'should we leave the andromeda federation' or something  anigbrowl   Jul-10-09 07:24 PM   #46 
     - I just like a good scrap.  Forkboy   Jul-10-09 07:27 PM   #47 
  - I would like an option to live in a country where its leaders  mmonk   Jul-10-09 07:29 PM   #48 
  - You think the US would peacefully dissolve?  MicaelS   Jul-10-09 08:02 PM   #51 
 

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