Blue and red states should be separate nations

That's how irreconcilably different we are.

The following might be considered only half tongue-in-cheek:
http://www.therationalradical.com/misc/redbluesplit.htm

Excerpts:

That's right, how about the Prime Blue States secede, and leave all the Red Bushian wasteland expanses to their own devices!

...Who needs them? Besides growing our food and providing some other natural resources, what good are those places? Populated largely by morons who continually vote to screw themselves, I don't want to be associated with them any more.

They'll still sell our new country food and resources, because who else could buy them? But the rest of us won't have to be stuck with their fundamentalist-inspired, imbecilic social claptrap and their bellicose, kill-them-all foreign policy that bloodies our name and besmirches our souls more and more with each passing year.

...The Bushian Red states can form a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. Bill O'Reilly can be the morals czar and make sure no Eminem or Ludacris besmirches that nation. John Ashcroft can still be Attorney General, and outlaw breasts and dancing. And on the economic front, wanting to avoid evil "big government," there will of course be no minimum wage (let alone a living wage!) so all those intelligent working class people who vote for Bush and his ilk can have their dream come true and work for Third World wages.

A million questions naturally arise, the four main ones of which are:

--There are Constitutional means to add states to the union, so are there -- or could there be enacted -- Constitutional means for states to leave?

There's a lot more.

Cathartic reading on a mournful day such as today, even if the idea is (just immediately?) not doable.

all they have is walmart

this would work

I posted another thread about this, but I want to make sure you see it too.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/151749/966

And the only right thing to do woud be to let each America live how it wants to live. Let one America have its fascist theology and let the other have its progressive haven.

The problem is, the red states stand in between the blue states.

We are the Northeast and the West Coast with some smatterings of sanity elsewhere.

How would this work? I really wonder, because for the first time I wonder if our republic can survive such opposite agendas.

I am boycotting red states, won't visit and will do my best not to buy from stores headquartered there.

CA grows produce, can we import what we could buy from the farm lands?

;^)

Please invade us now.
You can have the east and
west coasts and a little bit
down the middle.
We're here for the taking.

(kidding... not really)

Before you invade, please go to Gimli, In Gimli you will find the Crown Royal Distillery. Please bring 4, no 5 cases 1/2 gallon bottles. I'll write you a check when you get here.

I want my city to secede! The nation of Portland! (the first one)
We could all vote liberal, drink coffee and make a bundle of shipping!

You can keep the rest of the continent. I never leave the city anyways!