If they want to secede, I am all for it.

I didn't even realize you could start petitions on the Whitehouse website...I guess that's part of the president's initiative to make the website interactive. Very cool.

That was pretty funny.

I hope not. Texas would be ousted within a few days.

I love NOLA, but if they want to leave, I'll just use my passport to visit.

People from up as North as MD has signed. Actually, most signatures there are not of LA residents...

the federal money we will save once they are gone. Because you know we have to keep the "illegals" out

don't understand government or democracy. They are ignorant, and kept that way deliberately.

And some stay ignorant, lest they have to use one of those braincells in their head!

to do the next time a hurricane hits them? Beg for foreign aid from the evil USA?

You'd think that after the way a republican like W handled the Katrina disaster that they'd be happy to have a Democrat for President. Weird.

they're welcome to the rest of that shithole

i'm from IL.

hopefully MS, AL, GA and FL get their petitions up SOON.

Thanks anyway.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021788199

We should stop sending federal tax money to those red state immediately and give people that want to leave and stay with the USA up to a year and a half to leave and resettle. The red states will be hit by pestilence after they leave, so will we, but the difference is that we will be able to pay for rebuilding.

Can we start a petition to throw States out?

except the douchenozzle who started it...

What a joke.

Interesting browsing habits.



Edit - that sf.org link is to page 36 of a 49 page thread. Tellng.

arf

Lots of links out there on this tonight, yet page 36 of a sf.org thread and world nut daily is what you bring to DU?

Your "research" skills be a bit rusty given your target audience. Can you at least pretend?

Searched "Louisiana Secede" in Google and there's the link with the full list of states.

Considering the type who wants to secede, you won't find a link with such a list at Huffington Post or a left leaning site.

They and their ilk drive that sort of thing pretty heavily, so I don't snarkily implying someone's a disruptor on account of being aware of what they're saying is that appropriate, especially since the thread's pretty obviously about what those guys are thinking.

We all know you hate those of us in the red states, particularly those of us in the South.

Must be sad to be so hate-filled.

For the 50th time, I. AM. FROM. THE. SOUTH.

and no one claiming to be from Arkansas has signed it.

Yes, we went for Romney but our governor, our Sec of State, a couple of congresspersons and a senator are Dems. (Our senate race was one of the most closely watched in the nation this last go-round.)

We're are the Land of Truman and I hope that Tuesday was the slow start of bringing that back.

they hate freepers too!
heck they hate everybody!

I had relatives who died in the camps.

Fuck Nazis.

Georgia #2. What, they couldn't even agree with each other?

Which # is that?

riddance. Save the state and dump these jerks into their own hellhole of their own state.

Not all of us that are in red states want out. I think we will maybe have to pick a state or two to give up. The only way this works is if all the repuklicans agree to move to these states that we allow to secede.

Now we need to pick states.

I give one vote to oust Missouri.

anyone else?

Please list which states you would prefer to give up if we can come to an agreement.

They have become so very obvious. If we had resorted to this when Reagan or the Bushes took office, they would have accused us of treason.

They began this pattern during the Clinton 90s, demanding his impeachment, coming up with all sorts of assasination theories, and opposing any military actions during his term.

Now it's taken on an additional racial tone, in that we happen to have a president who isn't pure lily white. They want revolution and secession now. The rethugs have really demonstrated to the rest of the world how uncivil a society we're capable of being, how racially charged our society is, and how opposed to human rights that one of our major national parties is.

There is no doubt now. It has become apparent to all the world that a large segment of our citizens, particularly white males, feel absolutely entitled to everything of value this nation produces. They don't want to share, and now some of them are willing to destroy it all to keep from having to share it. If they can't maintain complete dominance, then they don't want to play the game anymore.

this nation. I call all of them terrorists.

LA 7400 signatures
TX 4400 signatures

If you look at the date the petitions were created, Louisiana was first, on November 7 while the Texas petition was made on the 9th. Texas is catching up though. When I looked earlier today, there were only 300+ signatures for Texas so that means 4k signed up since then.

someday I will live in the sovereign nation of Yankeedom.



OK, we can work on the name but that's what they've got on the map already

I'm returning to Seattle after seven years away, definitely looking forward to it, especially after the state elected a completely blue slate this time around, and legalized both gay marriage and pot (I'm neither gay nor a pot smoker, but I've always felt the discrimination against both to be silly).

The funny thing is that most of the people in Cascadia self-identify as such, almost as much as they identify themselves as Americans. In a way, this makes a lot of sense - it is 2500 miles from Seattle to Washington DC, roughly the same distance as London is from Moscow. Culturally, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, BC share a common history, common values, and a similar climate. One of these years, when the burdens of union weigh too heavily, Cascadia will be an independent nation, though that may be decades in the future yet.

I don't know anything about Cascadia, but if it doesn't extend to Marin, SF, and down into Monterey County of California, then Northern California should be it's own country. South of Monterey is a completely different country.

EDIT: I just checked the map I posted and it confirms this. Of course, being a native Californian, nobody had to tell me that Southern California (South of Monterey County) is a different country.

Couldn't sign this thing fast enough.... let 'em go..

start one for fema re-education camps for the loons starting those petitions.

Buh bye!

They are much more like them. The panhandle can be part of Alabama. Our state would very blue without those idiots.

fall far from my state (Texas). The real problem here is that these maggots infest our wonderful country. Aww...did I call them maggots? They want OUR country. And I don't think so...

now Mississippi and Alabama... I signed for them. Texas will be blue in a decade.... keep them. GA...Obama had 46% of vote there maybe hope for them...so they can stay.

and move all the secessionists there?

Are they idiots? Oh...never mind.


Let's annex New Orleans and then cast the rest of the state off.

They're boat anchors. That said, I know there are good people in Louisiana, some of my relatives are from there and they are not these jerks. ... but there is an element of this country that should just go off on their own. I'm fed up with hearing their backward bullshit, and they're not redeemable.

them our right-wingers. Great deal for us based upon the righties that I know.

a bunch of degenerates IMO. They're a depressing backward lot that the rest of us have to drag along. I'm fed up with it ...

I f we need to figure how to get people back to work and off the welfare rolls
they may as well start with the state of LA, right?

and not make fun of them. As some have pointed out, only a tiny number of people have signed these petitions and many are not from the states themselves.

Bunch of us object to this petition, but see no official way to say that.

Perhaps we could start a petition to kill the other petition? Or petition to reaffirm our status as an actual state.

It would also count as abject stupidity...whatever would Opelousas and Breaux Bridge do without all the tax money Massachusetts and Vermont send them?

This is all so stupid...knuckleheads want to secede because Obama doesn't want them to continue in the family tradition of dying of some easily treatable disease, leaving half the family fortune to the hospital? Oh yeah, he might resurrect the assault weapons ban. None of the people up in arms over this would buy an assault rifle anyway - you can get a bolt action rifle AND a pistol for the price of an AR-15 - but poutrage is always fun.

Wages not much more than minimum wages, turned red and they don't have a clue. The governor is cutting retirement to state workers, probably happy to see social security cut and thinks he is on his way to Washington. They should be kicking his butt. They hate minorities, cried like a baby wanting President Obama to come to the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill. If he was ready for Washington he should have performed better in Louisiana.

live in the free state of Louisiana have free passage to other states. After the people that want out of the free Louisiana leave, fuck the rest.

Apologies to our good DUers in LA, but I am so sick of this racist shit.

Yes, let's succeed and let the private interests of billionaires take over the state, just like segments of national government.

Nothing would change except for the fact that we'd be poorer than sin. Unless we're all growing sugar cane and working offshore there's not much we can do in the confines of geographical Louisiana.

What a fucking mess. Though, if North Louisiana wants to succeed they can be my guest; that's just Arkansas #2 anyways.