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In reply to the discussion: I seriously think we are seeing the beginning of America seperating into two or three countries. [View all]Yeah Its Spin
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I seriously think we are seeing the beginning of America seperating into two or three countries. [View all]
Justice wanted
Aug 2012
OP
Interesting. As I travel, the people I see do seem very different, region by region
superstring1
Aug 2012
#138
I actually have felt more at home in Europe than I have in certain regions of the U.S.
smirkymonkey
Aug 2012
#182
It's old, but one of the first in the modern period to delve into that
nadinbrzezinski
Aug 2012
#171
what makes you think a divided US would be any more independent of the banksters than a united
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#107
They'll still be on the dole to us, we use that to insist on disarming them.
diane in sf
Aug 2012
#98
Look how hard it is to get them to just give up assault rifles and large volume magazines!
leveymg
Aug 2012
#101
Or we just close the existing military bases in the South and let them have their own nation. This
jwirr
Aug 2012
#194
True, look for humans in North America and elsewhere to clamp down on them, as with Iran
superstring1
Aug 2012
#140
oh really? mighty broad brush you paint with. oklahoma? michigan? arizona? wyoming?
spanone
Aug 2012
#134
The South is NOT a uniform collection of mouth breathers, you DO know that, right?
dixiegrrrrl
Aug 2012
#142
Maybe you should stop believing in stereotypes and you wouldn't be so scared.
Fawke Em
Aug 2012
#214
As much as I'd really like to see these ass-clowns secede to their own little right wing rat holes,
meanit
Aug 2012
#19
I appreciate the beliefs of a united America, but it is as impractical as a united world.
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#45
Historical note of support for you. C. Vann Woodward (in "The Strange Career
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#210
Historical Note, The south didn't need Jim Crow laws to control people who were still slaves
Progressive dog
Aug 2012
#280
Jeez, this really isn't a case of the 'he did it too' argument 'from the south.' (I live in
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#311
There are those who see the world as binary, with a razor sharp dividing line between the two halves
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2012
#250
The US government doesn't have the wherewithal to move ANY group to a geographical location they
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2012
#76
You're totally distorting what I said. I said nothing about forced relocations, nothing whatsoever.
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#92
You do realize some of us liberal Southerners stay for a variety of reasons, right?
Fawke Em
Aug 2012
#222
I think Kansas has been pretty conservative for quite a long time. Brown vs. Topeka, after all,
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#225
I suspect we may stay united in some type of military alliance for safeties sake. It is the goals of
jwirr
Aug 2012
#207
Here's the facts on that. And relax, 'red States' are spread around much of the nation, West
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#158
I wonder if eventually international corporations take the place of nations
aint_no_life_nowhere
Aug 2012
#10
What is it about? Not in a position to get books easily - even from the library which is ten miles.
jwirr
Aug 2012
#217
I'm sorry I see the hate and just craziness and that professors words keep echoing in my mind.
Justice wanted
Aug 2012
#55
They would never do that. That would mean that the Palin family would have to become
smirkymonkey
Aug 2012
#198
Coors is loaded with beaver piss. I have been to the headwaters and saw it for my self. nt
SDjack
Aug 2012
#123
I believe NJ, MD, Del DoC, Pa and NY is included in what Chipper Chat describes
Fla Dem
Aug 2012
#160
Yes, I like Atlantica too and we would probably include New England since we
smirkymonkey
Aug 2012
#201
Very interesting....... A Russian economist saw the USA breaking up into 4 or 5 "countries'. This
firenewt
Aug 2012
#17
Brandeis University History Professor David Hackett Fischer suggests four distint countries
Brother Buzz
Aug 2012
#30
Yeah, I love when people refer to Los Angeles as a late comer to American history..
left coaster
Aug 2012
#202
No, he does not. Albion's Seed does not suggest the making of new natons at all
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#165
bad as it seems it's nothing compared to the way the u.s. was throughout the 1800s.
unblock
Aug 2012
#33
Up here in Oregon, Washington & B.C., the Cascadia Independence movement...
Speck Tater
Aug 2012
#36
That would require people working together and making sacrifices - fat chance.
jtuck004
Aug 2012
#38
Have a plebiscite. Honor the vote. Use the dissolution model of Czechoslovakia.
SDjack
Aug 2012
#154
Well shit, 200 years from now who the hell knows what the world will look like...
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2012
#54
Read some history, starting with the Missouri Compromise and then the Civil War
just1voice
Aug 2012
#65
Very interesting. I would have thought there would have been more protestant denominations
smirkymonkey
Aug 2012
#209
That the riots won't start until we lose cable and The Colonel's food, I suspect is true.
jtuck004
Aug 2012
#99
""The vast majority of people have the intellectual capacity of a goldfish."
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#179
You make a good point, but I imagine the fervor that would go with creating new countries
pampango
Aug 2012
#111
Why a divided America is in our future - Ask yourself this question first
ChickFullofHate
Aug 2012
#102
Since I'm an actual Southerner and not the stereotype you have bought into...
Fawke Em
Aug 2012
#234
We're back to the threat of the country fracturing and the parts making war on each other.
no_hypocrisy
Aug 2012
#126
Well the south sticks together then they can have their religion and what they
southernyankeebelle
Aug 2012
#132
Or we are seeing a national party forced to conform to anti-federalist rhetoric
HereSince1628
Aug 2012
#133
I suspect there is one difference. Most of us are asking if it will happen not wishing for it.
jwirr
Aug 2012
#221
a split could only occur if people in a definable geographic area believed that they were going to
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2012
#189
I see no other reason to split the country other than to get rid of conservatives.
Zorra
Aug 2012
#259
Congratulations in engaging in the same eliminationist rethoric they do
nadinbrzezinski
Aug 2012
#260
I think the fantasy is more of a wishful thinking method of being rid of
TheKentuckian
Aug 2012
#293