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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]Zorra
(27,670 posts)309. Thank you! Excellent news that conservatives want to split also.
We should begin negotiations immediately.
So, btw, like, what are some of these these "murky reasons" you speak of?
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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