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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the South did secede, we should defend the right of the cities and blue areas of the South...
...to secede FROM the South and form an archipelago state that would be part of the Union...
To do anything else would be to betray the people living in those areas, since they would be living in permanent powerlessness and oppression if the Confederacy was restored.
Bradshaw3
(7,529 posts)in honor of the area of Mississippi where poor whites and blacks banded together to fight against the confederacy.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Might need a different name, something like "Southern Free State".
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,838 posts)In 1860 there were specific, contiguous states who had a single, unified interest in preserving slavery and that collective reason for trying to secede. Now the schism is mostly between rural and urban areas, and there's no way to divide the country geographically into cohesive countries with similar interests. The county I live in is very liberal; drive 60 miles north and you're in freeperville. But the reasons why a particular area is liberal or conservative are all over the place.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)If a civil war breaks out, it will be like Rwanda.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)he's the first one begging for government help.