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Just got this in an email...btw, I live in a Red State...
Dear Red States:
We're ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics and we've
decided we're leaving. We in New York intend to form our own country and
we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware that
includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the Northeast. We believe this split will
be beneficial to the nation and especially to the people of the new country
of The Enlightened States of America (E.S.A.)
To sum up briefly:
- You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states
- We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
- We get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren. You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin.
- We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.
- We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
- We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
- We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs
- You get Alabama.
- We get 2/3 of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.
- Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition's,
We get a bunch of happy families.
You get a bunch of single moms.
With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of
- 80% of the country's fresh water,
- more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce,
- 92% of the nation's fresh fruit,
- 95% of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
- 90% of all cheese,
- 90 percent of the high tech industry,
- most of the US low sulfur coal,
- all living redwoods, sequoias and condors,
- all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States you will have to cope with
- 88% of all obese Americans and their projected health care costs,
- 92% of all US mosquitoes,
- nearly 100% of the tornadoes,
- 90% of the hurricanes,
- 99% of all Southern Baptists,
- virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
- 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale,
- 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws,
- 44% say that evolution is only a theory,
- 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and
- 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties.
We're taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico.
Sincerely,
Citizen of the Enlightened States of America
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)dsc
(52,162 posts)it was a big fish.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)There are good things and bad things about every state. There are good people and despicable people in every state. So-called "blue states" have given us some of the least "enlightened" politicians in recent years, including Reagan, the bu$hes, Bachmann, Ryan, Sensenbrenner, Boehner, Issa, ad nauseum. And 3 of the last 4 Democratic presidents have come from "red" states.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)It's not funny.
It's not intelligent.
It IS divisive.
And, it BEGS for the return of UNREC.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I think this is about the fourth or fifth time I've seen it since the election, not to mention the dozens of times before.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Just for starts, Harvard and Yale are in the Ivy League...