For a more perfect union, 49 states from sea to shining sea

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Yes, a large portion of your brain. This a wonderful example of how little you know. You should be embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for you.

You have ruined it for me. I will never again be able to take one of your posts seriously.

.....Some of regularly admit we don't know everything, can't know everything, don't want to know everything, and actually ask each other for what we're missing.

Are you opposed to that?

[Bayou Bum]

.....Some of regularly admit we don't know everything, can't know everything, don't want to know everything, and actually ask each other for what we're missing.

Are you opposed to that?

I'm opposed to hauptman claiming to be an expert on the subject, insulting everyone who disagrees with him or his idol Obama, and he doesn't even know something they teach in elementary school.

[dcmdale]

I am voting to boot MA based on the historical propensity of every MA politician to think that they are God's gift to the presidency.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

I am voting to boot MA based on the historical propensity of every MA politician to think that they are God's gift to the presidency.

If you boot MA, you basically have to boot RI as well. There are places in RI where the easiest way to get to them starts and ends in RI, but you have to go through MA to get there. Some sort of passport thing would be really annoying.

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!


On a somewhat related note:

After the 2004 elections, there was idle talk of splitting the USA in two parts, according to which candidate they supported. The blue states would then merge with Canada, while the red states would form a new country, derisively dubbed Jesusland.

Several posts in this thread have been along the lines "dump one state, and the party that I root for will have it much easier in winning the presidency.", my threadstart included.

However, let us posit that one would split USA into two states (without involving Canada) so that one state would consist of the pacific coast except Alaska, the states bordering the great lakes, the northeast, Washington DC, and maybe a few more, while the other state would consist of the rest. In these new countries, most people would have a considerably higher proportion of their fellow citizens politically agreeing with them. Put otherwise, there would be less anger because the other ones are holding up the one and only true policy. To a large extent, democrats and republicans could disengage and then go their respective merry ways.

So, do you think that a significant proportion of the present USA citizenry would feel better, if they were to live in one of those two new countries?

I am porposefully glossing over all the very real messiness of splitting the country. However, I note that there is historical precedent - Czech Republic and Slovakia, Austria/Hungary (that is somewhat of a halfway house), the former Yugoslav states, and maybe something I missed.

How well would those two countries function?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[Bayou Bum]

Hi!


On a somewhat related note:

After the 2004 elections, there was idle talk of splitting the USA in two parts, according to which candidate they supported. The blue states would then merge with Canada, while the red states would form a new country, derisively dubbed Jesusland.

Several posts in this thread have been along the lines "dump one state, and the party that I root for will have it much easier in winning the presidency.", my threadstart included.

However, let us posit that one would split USA into two states (without involving Canada) so that one state would consist of the pacific coast except Alaska, the states bordering the great lakes, the northeast, Washington DC, and maybe a few more, while the other state would consist of the rest. In these new countries, most people would have a considerably higher proportion of their fellow citizens politically agreeing with them. Put otherwise, there would be less anger because the other ones are holding up the one and only true policy. To a large extent, democrats and republicans could disengage and then go their respective merry ways.

So, do you think that a significant proportion of the present USA citizenry would feel better, if they were to live in one of those two new countries?

I am porposefully glossing over all the very real messiness of splitting the country. However, I note that there is historical precedent - Czech Republic and Slovakia, Austria/Hungary (that is somewhat of a halfway house), the former Yugoslav states, and maybe something I missed.

How well would those two countries function?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

One would once again become a great country, the other would become like New Orleans after Katrina.

[migopod]

Hi!


On a somewhat related note:

After the 2004 elections, there was idle talk of splitting the USA in two parts, according to which candidate they supported. The blue states would then merge with Canada, while the red states would form a new country, derisively dubbed Jesusland.

Several posts in this thread have been along the lines "dump one state, and the party that I root for will have it much easier in winning the presidency.", my threadstart included.

However, let us posit that one would split USA into two states (without involving Canada) so that one state would consist of the pacific coast except Alaska, the states bordering the great lakes, the northeast, Washington DC, and maybe a few more, while the other state would consist of the rest. In these new countries, most people would have a considerably higher proportion of their fellow citizens politically agreeing with them. Put otherwise, there would be less anger because the other ones are holding up the one and only true policy. To a large extent, democrats and republicans could disengage and then go their respective merry ways.

So, do you think that a significant proportion of the present USA citizenry would feel better, if they were to live in one of those two new countries?

I am porposefully glossing over all the very real messiness of splitting the country. However, I note that there is historical precedent - Czech Republic and Slovakia, Austria/Hungary (that is somewhat of a halfway house), the former Yugoslav states, and maybe something I missed.

How well would those two countries function?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

Something similar was attempted in the 1860's. Many people in both the north and the south still wish it had succeeded.

[migopod]

One would once again become a great country, the other would become like New Orleans after Katrina.

QFT

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