MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S., but why?
By EmmaZahn on Fri, 09/19/2014 - 9:30am |This should be more than disconcerting; it’s a situation that could get dangerous. As the Princeton political scientist Mark Beissinger has shown, separatist movements can take hold around contempt for incumbents and the status quo even when protesters have no ideology in common.
The United States hardly seems to be on the verge of fracture, and the small secession movements in a handful of American states today represent a tiny percentage of those polled by Reuters. But any country where 60 million people declare themselves to be sincerely aggrieved — especially one that is fractious by nature — is a country inviting either the sophistry of a demagogue or a serious movement for reform.
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Scotland and America: The secessionist temptation | The Economist
...secession movements are to some extent a second-order phenomenon, and that the real driver is partisan hostility.
...America has very significant, authentic regional divisions: the deep South is profoundly different from the North-east, as is the conservative inland West from the liberal Pacific coast. But America's two political parties have been increasingly successful at organising different preferences into coherent ideological camps, and at carving up territory according to those preferences.
,,, the fact that different regions gradually get so angry at each other that they consider exiting their political union may not be a matter of stable regions with different innate characters being split by growing disagreements. It may be a matter of political parties transforming the political map such that regions are turned against each other.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 09/19/2014 - 10:06am
But what kind of flags do some of that 25% carry if they hold protests? that is the real question!
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/19/2014 - 11:39pm
That's easy. (It's still "Talk like a pirate day" in California)
Stab me and sink me, they fly the Jolly Roger. And, ICYMI, we brethren of the coast were right proud to have no less a bloodthirsty booty-snatchin', sinister-smilin', spalpeen than John Malkovich portrayin' Edward Teach on TV.
Now, aargh, Where's that Krispy Kreme...?
by jollyroger on Sat, 09/20/2014 - 1:04am
by EmmaZahn on Sat, 09/20/2014 - 7:50am
Did they mention how many Americans want other states (e.g., Texas or Florida) to secede from the US?
by Verified Atheist on Mon, 09/22/2014 - 9:30am
LOL...Florida is sinking. Everyone is going to migrate into Canada.
Actually Florida is turning very blue these days.
by trkingmomoe on Tue, 09/23/2014 - 3:49am
Are they counting all the 'local' secessionists, like the New York City residents that want NYC to secede from New York State or the Nantucket residents that want to secede from Massachusetts ... or the Northern Californians? Those folks want to form new states, not new countries... I don't think it would ever happen, but I like the idea of NYC becoming its own state. They can give the rest of New York state back to Vermont. hahahaha
by MrSmith1 on Thu, 09/25/2014 - 6:55am