Look who else wants to secede (sigh)

[LiberalElite]

http://gawker.com/3-000-upstaters-want-to-commit-economic-suicide-by-sece-1727327466

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That attractive graphic up there represents a plan put forth by a group of liberty lovers who’d like to see New York state split into two “autonomous regions”: New York, below, composed of the city plus Long Island and Westchester and Rockland Counties, and New Amsterdam, above, composed of everything else. If that sounds appealing to you, you can attend their rally on Sunday.

Splitting up New York is not a new idea. Vermont only became a state after it successfully withdrew from New York in 1777, and in the 1960s, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran a wacky New York City mayoral campaign premised on independence for the five boroughs.
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xposted in New York

[Samantha]

1. This sounds like someone who assumes Hillary might get all of those NY electoral college votes

might want that blocked so that the Republicans can siphon off a few for themselves. I wonder if we will read the same rumor about California tomorrow.

Sam

[TexasTowelie]

2. Let them secede,

then don't readmit them back to the union. It will get rid of a few GOP House members that way.

[still_one]

3. No. It is a ploy so all the electoral votes don't go to the winner of the Presidential election,

which most likely would be a Democrat.

[Samantha]

4. Exactly

And I knew when I posted that post above there has already been similar talk in California. The Republicans (conservatives) want to split off. I wonder why....

Sam

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. There's a Cascadian secessionist movement up here in the Pacific Northwest.

Small but growing...

[pinboy3niner]

6. Same ploy used perennially in California

Proposal to divide into 5 states, naturally favoring Republicans in Presidential electoral vote contests.

[left-of-center2012]

7. How about Alaska?

Didn't Palin's hubby belong to the Alaska Independence Party which advocated for Alaska to leave the USA?

[merrily]

8. I am strongly in favor of the Palins' leaving the USA, if they so wish.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Haven't you heard?

She want to be Trump's VP

[merrily]

11. And I support her in that choice as well. Trump-Palin 2016!

[merrily]

9. Yes, and, as Mayor of Wasilia, she had no choice but to be hospitable to secessionist groups.

Or, so she said.