Source: 1997 AGRICULTURAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES
-PJ
Posted on 11/08/2004 11:00:51 PM PST by kattracks
Secession, which didn't work very well when it was tried once before, is suddenly red hot in the blue states. In certain precincts, anyway.
One popular map circulating on the Internet shows the 19 blue states won by Sen. John Kerry — Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland and the Northeastern states — conjoined with Canada to form the "United States of Canada." The 31 red states carried by Mr. Bush are depicted as a separate nation dubbed "Jesusland." The idea isn't just a joke; one top Democrat says, "The segment of the country that pays for the federal government is now being governed by the people who don't pay for the federal government."
"Some would say, 'Oh, poor Alabama. It's cut off from the wealth infusion that it gets from New York and California,' " said Lawrence O'Donnell, a veteran Democratic insider and now senior political analyst at MSNBC. "But the more this political condition goes on at the presidential level of the red and blue states, the more you're testing the inclination of the blue states to say, 'So what?' "
Mr. O'Donnell raised the subject of secession on "The McLaughlin Group" during the weekend. "Ninety percent of the red states are welfare-client states of the federal government," said Mr. O'Donnell, who was an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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LOL! Apparently you have to be a liberal and vote Democrat to qualify for welfare according to their idea of "means testing".
If the libs really feel this way, why don't they run candidates who oppose the Federal Welfare State? Let the Blue states keep their tax money in their own states, as well as keeping their big government regulations and mandates to themselves as well.
It's all about State's Rights.
Possibly. But the country has done so well so far that it wouldn't pay to tamper with things. If our states or regions ever do decide to separate, there may be so much bad blood that it would take a generation to sort things out.
If we do split up we may find ourselves wondering why we did. For if it's a peaceful, amicable divorce the different parts may come to resemble each other, and if it's messy and bitter, we may come to ask if it wouldn't have been better to live with each other.
America has a certain weight in the world because of its size, and I can't help thinking that splitting up would mean losing that power and sooner or later falling under someone else's influence.
Actually, they are right. Just not how they think. Our nation is in a dangerous situation right now. There are more Americans who don't pay taxes but reap benefits than there are Americans who do pay taxes. There is no incentive for the non-producers to:
The Founding Fathers limited voting rights to property owners. The evil genie is out of the bottle now, with no probability of returning. But there must be some way of ridding the nation of those who would bleed it dry.
Source: 1997 AGRICULTURAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES
-PJ
Let'em go! Let them find out what France and Germany are discovering right now: socialism doesn't work!
The democrats tried this once before and Republicans stopped them. Do they want theirs slaves back as well.
I think Wisconsin was stolen, too, truth be known.
Michigan too.
Does this mean we get to start shootin Dems again?!
Let the blue states go. I'll gladly move to Ohio or Alaska or Florida. In 5 or 6 years their populations will have dwindled from starvation and internal strife. Then we can walk right in and repopulate the blue states. Make a brand new start of it. Jim
I doubt President Bush will allow them to be successful.
"I have but one sentiment now. That is we have a Government, and laws and a flag and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now, Traitors & Patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter."
- U.S. Grant, 1861
It says as much now as it did back then.
ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease!
It's funny to hear them call certain states "welfare-clients". Dems are suddenly concerned about people they don't like receiving money they were forced to pay in?? Could it be that they're finally seeing the light?
I saw a chart a year ago that listed the states according to how much federal spending they receive in return for tax dollars sent in, and it's funny how the states that tend to vote Dem overall receive less in spending than they pay in, while the states that tend to vote GOP overall receive more.
Here's a map that shows it:
http://www.taxpayfedil.org/images/fedspend.gif
I remember the chart I first saw (can't find it now) listed my state NJ as number 49. The map shows we receive 65 cents for every dollar we send to the Fed. Yet the dummies here vote for big-spending higher-tax Dems again and again.
Strong agreement here.
Bah, this is just the blowhards filling the room with hot air. No one here in MN is talking secession, and I live in Minneapolis which is "heart of the beast" territory.
Easy for you to say, you don't own property in the blue spots.
We should divide it up blue county by red county.
Thats their point, they are saying that the blue states are
paying for the red states to get food, etc.
Has anyone seen this purple state thing the press is trying to
push now?
They are trying to not DIVIDE the country because of the red has more states than the blue.
So we take blue and red and come out with purple.
But their point is not an artsy craftsy how to mix colors, its symbolic that there are blues in reds and reds in blues.
Reminds me sort of the terror alert colors people complain about. So whats with colors as an issue now good grief when will it end.
Thank goodness I learned primary colors in school LOL.;)
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