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Are they counting all the

MrSmith1 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:55:46 +0000

In reply to One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S., but why?

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

LOL...Florida is sinking.

trkingmomoe — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:49:11 +0000

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LOL...Florida is sinking. Everyone is going to migrate into Canada.

Actually Florida is turning very blue these days.

Did they mention how many

Verified Atheist — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:30:52 +0000

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Did they mention how many Americans want other states (e.g., Texas or Florida) to secede from the US?

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EmmaZahn — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:50:45 +0000

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That's easy. (It's still

jollyroger — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 05:04:47 +0000

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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...?

But what kind of flags does

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 03:39:49 +0000

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But what kind of flags do some of that 25% carry if they hold protests? that is the real question!

Scotland and America: The

EmmaZahn — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:06:04 +0000

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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.