Would you like your state to leave the Union?

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	Yes, we're out of here
	3 (12%)
	No, we're staying
	19 (76%)
	Not Sure
	0 (0%)
	Other
	3 (12%)
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[peace13]

1. No but I would like a State of like minded people to leave...

...so that I could join them. Ohio, need I say more?

[demmiblue]

2. As long as Canada absorbs Michigan. n/t

[roamer65]

7. Ditto.

[Kaleva]

17. As long as Michigan absorbs Canada is what you really mean?

[roamer65]

40. Ontario is and still would be the powerhouse province of Canada.

Michigan, if it were a Canadian province, would be more on par with Quebec economically.

One nice thing about being a Canadian province is you can actually run a deficit and issue bonds like a sovereign nation. There are definite pluses to confederation.

...and we would fall under the Canada Health Act and receive transfer payments for single-payor Medicare!

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. Yes, CA should start right now

We could go it alone simply. Keep our money here instead of giving it to a bunch of dumbases in Alabama.

[AngryAmish]

4. Careful I got a hide last nite for bringing up the Texit.

[Renew Deal]

10. That doesn't make sense

Even advocating for it shouldn't earn a hide. I saw another Texas thread floating around. Advocating that someone get thrown out might get a hide though.

[taught_me_patience]

5. I'd prefer that California leave the US

I think we'd be better of financially and culturally.

[struggle4progress]

6. We had this discussion 150 years ago. When the "leave" group lost Round One,

the legislature took matters into its own hands and took us out. Several years of gunfire followed. By the end of Round Three, we were back

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Yes. If Canada would adopt us and make us Baja Britich Columbia.

[choie]

9. No, but I'd sure like it if some other states would!

[baldguy]

15. +1

[cry baby]

11. I would prefer to stay, but I live in Texas and I see lots of

bumper stickers wanting a Texas secession.

[kentauros]

20. Where in Texas do you live?

I live in Houston (pop. 2.2 million, Greater Houston Area 5.5 million) and I've only ever seen one. On a beat up pickup truck. I chuckled and thought "how typical."

[cry baby]

24. Palestine. East Texas...smaller towns, more rural, way more right wing

than most city folks.

I've taken many "blue highway" trips through this state I grew up in. It's a different world in medium/small cities.

[kentauros]

26. I know of the small towns and East Texas.

To the rest of us, East Texas truly is "A whole 'nuther country" and it's not the country/state in the travelogs, other than the landscape-beauty of it

[jamese777]

12. One nation, indivisible...

I would prefer for those individuals who want to leave to just go ahead and move elsewhere. Canada has a huge landmass but a population (36 million) just under that of California (39 million).

[Aristus]

13. Other: I won't advocate for Washington's secession, but I won't stand in the way

if we decide as a state to do it.

If we can get Oregon on board, we can erase the border between our two states, and proclaim the Republic of Cascadia.

[kentauros]

19. What about the bright red eastern halves of your states?

[Aristus]

21. Fuck 'em.

Let them become West Idaho or some shit.

[kentauros]

22. So, in other words,

you'll have to build walls down the middles of your states before you can secede? Who's gonna pay for that?

[Aristus]

23. Nah. Who needs walls?

Spokanistan and points East keep on their side voluntarily. They don't want to come west over the mountains and get liberal all over themselves...

[kentauros]

25. Okay, so it's more like the eastern two-thirds to three-quarters then.

Not much population left for your country. What's to keep the original Natives from kicking you out?

[countryjake]

27. The Cascades already do that, a nice natural wall all the way down to North CA!

And if the Cascadia secession included much of CA, I'd be all for it. But I sure wouldn't want my daughter down in the Bay area to be stuck being just "Left Coast" for the rest of her days.

The original Cascadia was also BC and northern California...nowadays, I think it should go all the way and just include the entire West coast.

[kentauros]

34. Sure,

except for the fact that they're all dormant volcanoes and part of the Pacific's Ring of Fire

And whenever California gets The Big One, not being part of the union with the rest of the states would not work out so well for getting aid.

Short of Lucifer's Hammer hitting right in the middle of Yosemite, talk of breaking up the states is rather fruitless. We're all in it together, for better or worse.

[countryjake]

37. A Big One in the Cascadia Faultzone, we wouldn't need no stinkin'

Aid.

And when my volcano finally blows, same story...it's all over.




Seriously tho, up here FEMA has plans to evacuate "survivors" of that Big One across the Cascades to their camp in Eastern WA.

[Lochloosa]

14. Of course...then we could charge admission to visit Florida....

oh wait, we already do that.

[LWolf]

16. No.

I'd like the rest of the Union to join my state, at least the population-heavy western half of my state, in enlightened evolution.

[kentauros]

18. As a native Texan, I say we should remain in the Union

if only to further piss off all of those DUers that absolutely hate us.

Hey guys? Thick skin!

[RandySF]

28. .

[EV_Ares]

29. No but I would like for Texas to leave especially since they are always threatening.

[bonemachine]

30. Hmmm...

I do wonder if we're not pissing up a rope trying to drag all of the USA into the 21st century all at once sometimes. Not too many of our states would probably be able to hack it as sovereign nations, but there's a certain appeal to taking a heaping hunk of the power of the federal government and putting into the hands of a handful of regional governments instead...

[Glorfindel]

31. No. Mississippi wouldn't last ten minutes without the rest of the country

And the poorest people of the poorest state in the union would suffer terribly. On the other hand, my native state, Georgia, would probably do just fine on its own.

[adigal]

42. I thought Georgia is pretty poor, too.

At least when I did dog rescue, there were many horrendously unfunded towns.

[npk]

44. Georgia has the 10th largest economy in the country

Thanks largely to Atlanta and the souths busiest port now is in Savannah. Georgia has a low cost of living which means it doesn't pay it's work force what it should, but Georgia has lots of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP

[adigal]

45. Well, they don't use it in their dog shelters, they heartstick to save $$$$ nt

[npk]

46. Can't argue that. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

32. Yes, but let me get out of it, first.

Wish I had never moved here.

[Puglover]

33. What?

God.

[Orangepeel]

35. *my* state? Absolutely not. Some other states, maybe

[nadine_mn]

36. Only if Minnesota becomes part of Canada

[Rex]

38. .

[tirebiter]

39. First: California's about to pass up England in world economy as it is

Second: I 'd rather not have to have a passport to visit Oregon

[adigal]

41. If I lived in Vermont, I'd like to join Canada

I live in NY and know it would never happen. I also might like some other states to leave the Union.

[msanthrope]

43. I have states I'd like to nominate. nt