FINE! I'll Admit It, I'm Ready To Deal With The Republicans!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

but only on an American two state solution!

I no longer desire to share a country with these Repug Freaks. I don't think that liberals should be forced to "Love It Or Leave It" as the freeps always love to yell. We do love it! We don't want to leave it! We just want you repug bastards to give it back!

So, I propose we just split this bitch in two and get it over with. It is a huge land mass. Plenty of room for all of the secular humanists and fundie bible bangers we have. The issue is not total land, it is population distribution

I used to hold out for the good states. But, I want out so bad at this point I'll give them first pick. As long as they agree to take their freepie McGee Buddies with them.

I'll trade them New York for Alabama! Cali for Mississippi. Just leave those of us that move to the REAL United States of America the fuck alone to run our lives!!!

[Shoeempress]

1. Just use the old Mason Dixon line and the vast majority of problems

are over. We get Hawaii, they get Alaska.

[beyurslf]

4. Agreed. Just cut the south off and most of the problems go away.

[rigel99]

5. wait a second

Georgia was a Blue state for 132 years till we got Diebold.

I think there are more democrats in Georgia than anywhere in the southeast...

but there are some churches in this state I'd like to get rid of...

but hey, we're not all bad, and we're working out little redneck assess off on election fraud.

don't give up on the south just yet..

but I do miss a killer dance performance at Lincoln Center in NY.....

[Shoeempress]

9. With Dem's running the north, I'm sure you could move up. Not like

there's no good places, and if cold is the issue, there's California and Hawaii. Neither is too shabby.

[rigel99]

19. OK, i'm on the verge..

it would be nice to get away from my repuke sisters and brothers who have no clue

but spend their lives in a greedy daze.....screwing others as gleefully as B*%# himself..

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Strange isn't it?

I wouldn't give up either. Sooner or later we'll turn all the way blue.

[Warpy]

8. That used to be true 20 years ago, but no more

the south is not nearly as piggish as the real moron corridor: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Those areas are nearly pure red, while the south is a nice violet.

It's the heartland that's become the bastion of wingnuttery, dumbfuckery, and total delusion.

I've often thought Lincoln made a terrible mistake, that mechanization would have made the slave system unprofitable and the south would have had to abandon it to remain competitive. I'm sure they'd have rejoined us by now, if one state at a time.

They'd have kept their educated class, and the culture wouldn't be as ridiculously anti northeast and anti intellectual as it is today. They certainly wouldn't be sending pols like Jesse Helms, whose only qualification was pissing off the Yankees.

So rethink that map, folks. The heartland is the problem these days, not Dixie. Those folks in the south just need to grow up a little more.

On edit: tongue is firmly in cheek here, so don't bother to flame

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. I must disagree.

Freepers and radical, fundementalist rePubs are EVERYWHERE. We need to work on a case by case basis. We need to be more assertive in our positions. We need to not make generalizations.....like they do! :)

[rigel99]

27. ok.. here's a non generalization

Freepers and radical fundamentalists are everywhere.

you said it and I'm only repeating it cause it's true in a taoist sense, but the same could be said of democrats or liberals.. the label is in the mind of the beholder..

so I'm going to say the south was not lost, it's only been hidden by election fraud..

the definition of fraud is in the mind of the beholder...

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Not all the south is bad

Tennessee has a democratic governor. Sometimes I wonder if that's ever going to happen. Clearly we don't get a long.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Lincoln made a HUGE mistake....

and we're paying for it now.

[shawn703]

3. I say we should keep a few of the freaks around though

Put them on a travelling carnival's sideshow so we can gawk and throw vegetables at them.

[zippy890]

6. I'm with you

But we'll keep Mass - Boston will be the new capital.

All open-minded people welcome!

[splat@14]

7. Can they all fit on Three Mile Island? n/t

[katinmn]

10. I've had it. We just don't see eye to eye on anything anymore

I've grown away from you.

I want a divorce!

[0rganism]

11. The population is not politically split state-by-state...

Rather, it's an urban-rural split. Look at the county-by-county election maps and you'll see islands of intense Democratic voting surrounded by a sea of moderate-to-severe republicanism.

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Now People, Already Trying To Divide The States! I Said THEY GET FIRST

PICKS! I said I was ready to deal. Not just start claiming states.

We have no political clout to throw around. I'll take whatever shithole leftovers they want to give us!

Just as long as I can build a very high wall to keep them the hell out!

[zippy890]

21. Well I'm betting they won't want

Mass. - because of the 'homosexualization' thats so rampant here since gay marriage was legalized. (Actual term used by religious zealots)

[shadowknows69]

14. I'm with you

give us 10 years each of them outsourcing every job in their country and us rebuilding a manufacturing base for ours and we'll see who has the better economy at the end. Maybe when they've completely bankrupt "Redland" maybe us kind folks from "Blueland" will throw them some food. Maybe.

[Sir Jeffrey]

15. What about this?

Divide the country into nine fairly homogenous nation states... This solution would allow these regions to self-govern and deal with their own internal problems as they see fit. That way, if Dixie wanted to turn into a faux-christian theocracy, so be it. They woudn't have the Dem states to fund their militancy.

http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/18

snip

n his first book, The Nine Nations of North America (1981) Garreau argued that the existing political boundaries of North America are becoming increasingly irrelevant as regions begin to coalesce into smaller "nations," each with its own economic, political, and cultural characteristics. Garreau identifies nine new North American nations:

1. The Breadbasket: Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and northern Texas as well as southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada
2. Dixie: southern and southeastern U.S. states, including most of eastern Texas and Florida to the city of Fort Meyers
3. Ecotopia: the Pacific Northwest coast stretching from Alaska in the north to just south of San Francisco.
4. The Empty Quarter: most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Denver, Colorado as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, and all of Alberta, British Columbia and Northern Canada.
5. The Foundry: the declining industrial areas of the northeastern United States stretching from New York City to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and including Chicago as well as southern Ontario
6. The Islands: the Caribbean islands, parts of Venezuela and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale portion of southern Florida
7. Mex America: the southern and central valley portions of California as well as Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico
8. New England: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut and the Canadian Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland
9. Quebec: the Canadian province of Quebec

Note: obviously, the non-US parts of this would not be included, so no flames please :)

[DistressedAmerican]

16. I Wish The Non-US Areas WOULD Join Us! They Hate Bush Too!

[katinmn]

17. Minnesota? I was looking forward to something a bit warmer

but I guess we'll go to Canada.

[tx_dem41]

18. Yep, that's the easy way out.

Go ahead and give up. The rest of us will try to pick up the slack.

[DistressedAmerican]

20. Here We Go! Every Thread Has To Have A "More Liberal Than Thou" Post!

Good for you for being so much a better American or Democrat or whatever it is you seem to think you are than all of the rest of us.

For one thing, I wonder if some people lack a satire gene!

Lighten up Captain Better American!

WHY DOES EVERY THREAD HAVE TO GO TO SHIT WITH THIS STUFF?

I AM SO SICK OF IT!

[annabanana]

22. impaired funnybone, . . . common malady...n/t

[katinmn]

24. they make me feel like an optimist in comparison

Hey -- I'm not the most cynical and depressed. There's someone worse off than me!!

[rigel99]

26. i can always count on DU to remind me

that I'm not the sickest person in the pile... it's so refreshing even if somewhat distracting....