Cartographically perplexing secession billboard appears in Missouri

[Recursion]

Hm.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/09/2760221/mysterious-pro-secession-billboard-appears-in-missouri/

[TransitJohn]

1. They didn't know the US Postal abbreviation for Mississippi and used the one for Michigan

Everyone this dog whistle is for will be oblivious.

[Recursion]

2. Even if it's that, it's an odd contiguity

Missouri and Oklahoma barely touch.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. So they want to all but surround Arkansas?

The only land routes out of Arkansas to avoid their dystopia would be through Tennessee? Aiyee!

[cui bono]

9. And what's that say when even those guys don't want Arkansas?

I'm sure it's not because it's too liberal.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. They don't want Arkansas because it has a Democratic governor

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and expanded Medicaid. Also, it's about the only state in the area that doesn't have a Stand-your-ground law

[SharonAnn]

16. And what about ALabama?

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. How much you wanna bet the guy that ordered the text thought...

the abbreviation for Mississippi is "MI"?

And they're just gonna leave Arkansas alone, surrounded by this new country?

[Recursion]

5. And if you're doing that, why leave out Alabama?

It's got much more in common with TX, LA, OK, and MS than MO does, as a whole.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. The Missouri Ozarks have a lot in common with Alabama

And Springfield, MO, is vying for the title "Buckle of the Bible Belt".

[Recursion]

12. Sure, but there's nothing even approaching Kansas City or St. Louis in Alabama

Hell, there's nothing approaching Tulsa in Alabama or Mississippi...

I guess I just mean that MS, AL, LA and even AR really are sort of tied together in a Texas-centered west Gulf economic system, and in a way that MO and OK really aren't (MO has more commercial connections to Chicago or Minneapolis than Houston in a lot of ways).

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Tulsa has a great zoo, and a wonderful art museum (the Gilcrease)

but it also has its share of racists, like the two guys who went around shooting African-Americans last year. It's also the home of Oral Roberts University, and consistently votes Republican.

Oklahoma, like Texas, is heavily dependent on oil production

And Huntsville, with its NASA facilities and university, is not your typical Alabama town.

[nyquil_man]

6. This is a fail on so many levels. nt

[Luminous Animal]

7. Michigan is going to be pissed.

[Denninmi]

10. Ah, more like terrified.

I have no real desire to be a citizen of the United States of Teahadistan.

[Luminous Animal]

13. Nope. As a born and raised Michigander,

I'm sticking with pissed.

[JHB]

8. <sigh> Teabaggers. Quality is just not "Job 1"

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Ahhh, indeed. And I expect great things

from the Republic of Texlammomiokkistan.