Does the South Belong in the Union?

Townhall ^ | 06/28/2013 | Pat Buchanan

[no-to-illegals]

at five thousand a pop for hiring a citizen written into the bill ... I’d say you have figured this one out.

[reg45]

You mean, people like me. I’m from Ill-annoy, born in Chicago, the most corrupt city in America. I don’t like the situation any more than you do. Most of the people in Illinois who live outside of Crook county would like a divorce from Chicago.

[Dysart]

Harold looks forward to the day that a surging Latino population forces "epochal political change" on a detestable white South.

Ladies and Germs this is the very essence of these euphoric amnesty proponents during the course of the pro-illegal movement for generations, and I dread they're about to climax.

But Buchanan should have gone further and asserted desired transmutation envelops more than political features and genuinely targets cultural displacement. Or, obliteration, if you prefer.

[null and void]

Not much in the way of anti-armor capability against an M1-A2 available anywhere. I only know of a handful lost in combat. Mostly due to being bogged down in mud.

Too bad the South lacks mud...

[null and void]

It would be a very bad thing if the roads and rails to that city got cut.

[Gay State Conservative]

I fully support...FULLY support...a mass secession.The dozen or so “blue” states form the Communist States of America,the rest form the Respectable States of America.In the CSA everyone gets an EBT card (and an ObamaPhone),every Mexican on earth is given immediate citizenship in the CSA,the “Department of NAMBLA” is established as a cabinet department,and other “progressive” reforms are established.The RSA is,well...respectable,decent and logical.Once established I can move to NC,TN or GA even though I hate heat and humidity.And don’t worry,Tarheels (or Volunteers,or Peach Staters),although I don’t “get” NASCAR I won’t be voting for leftists.Ever.

[Little Ray]

No, we’re not in a strong position.
We’re poisoned by the urban areas in our midst: San Antonio, Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Richmond, Memphis etc. All of them strongholds of “Progressive” thought.

[SeekAndFind]

[Little Ray]

Why? Would the Brits have intervened?
Personally, I think Lincoln won the war when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He made it about slavery, and neither France not Great Britain were going to intervene to defend slavery.

[swamprebel]

Yes, because without the South, the Union would have ecomonically collapsed in the 70’s when the factories began closing and the rust belt developed, at that point the West would have pulled away, as they have not since the Indian Wars needed anybodies help, and have since at least the 70’s, wanted autonomy from a Big bloated Central Government.

[catfish1957]

Too bad exactly 150 years ago today, Lee didn’t make a hard right turn toward DC. There would have been lots of nice flat land just north of Washington to meet our northern buddies in an arm wrestle. :)

[onedoug]

This time it'll be different.

[central_va]

Gettysburg should have been Rockville.

[peyton randolph]

who their race leaders tell them to vote for

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It certainly doesn't help that Spanish language media (radio and TV) in the U.S. is somewhere to the left of MSNBC. 

[central_va]

If you have ever war gamed the Civil War you see how much terrain makes a difference. Just the smallest slightest hill(rise) gives the defense a great advantage.

[needmorePaine]

Make 3 countries:
Pacific States of America - Hawaii, Cali, Oregon, Washington, and throw in Nevada.
Decrepit States of America - Northeast down to Northern Va and the Great Lakes and Rust Belt areas (northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and all of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota)
American States of America - The rest, including Alaska. I could Texas making a play to go solo though.

[SeekAndFind]

If there ever were a coup or (God forbid ) another civil war, the South will have more soldiers than the North.

[no-to-illegals]

Lee is rumored to have had a mild heart-attack around the time of Gettysburg. Lee chose to fight at Gettysburg when advised, by his advisers and Generals, against doing so.

[no-to-illegals]

Bet you knew what I typed in prior post.

[catfish1957]

I figured the biggest swarth of recruitment would be the Scotch-Irish influence starting from So,Va., NC, working west throuh KY, TN, then AR, OK, and Texas.