How about a Blue/Red divorce?

We Blue States are leaving you red states to form a more perfect
union and you red states can even keep our married name, The United
States.

Our new blue state country called New America, starts in California,
goes up to Oregon, Washington, across Canada to grab Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
the rest of New England that's New America, you red states keep the
rest. I haven't checked on this plan with Canada but, nobody whose in
the Monkees says no to joining the Beatles, so Canada's in.

If you red staters want, all the normal business blue and red states
do now can continue there'll be trade and commerce between our two
countries, the Chicago Cubs will still play the Florida Marlins, it'll
be business as usual.

You Red Staters can keep the Constitution and Bill of Rights, New
America has copies and we're going to fix them anyway. Our second
amendment will make it clear, for example, you can't buy a rocket
launcher at a flea market. Little tweaks like that.

New America will have lots of religion, Baptists, Buddhists,
Agnostics for Jesus, the whole range, just not in the public schools.
No new "creation-ism" science books needed, here. Imagine the savings.

Abortion will be legal within limits but we're also going to finance
tons of scary sex education in our schools, too, and soon we'll have
tons fewer unwanted pregnancies than you. Our Blue State New America
kids will know how and why what got into them got into them. Fewer
doctor visits, imagine our savings....

We will split up the military, we blue staters pay for most of, but
we'll share it with you. Our two nations certainly could, in the
future, have a coalition of the willing, at times. But New America
will be unwilling at other times. And because we won't be attacking
nations that didn't attack us first, inflaming, for example, the whole
of the already testy Arab world, again, imagine our savings.

We will have an energy policy that looks beyond oil. You can have
Alaska if we can have Hawaii.

Electronic voting machines in New America will have a paper trail.
That only seems fair. If I can get a piece of paper proving I paid for
a Slurpee at 7/11, I should be able to get a piece of paper saying who
I wanted to be the leader of the free world. Again, that only seems
fair. In fact, that seems to be the essence of, hmmmm, (I'm scratching
my chin) what was that again, oh yes, democracy.

This break up is going to be good for both of us because blue states
generate a disproportionately huge amount of the tax revenue spent
propping up you red states, again, imagine the savings for New
America, and after we split you red states can prove what you can do
when the government gets off your back. With no more spousal support
from us keeping you down you red states will flourish and prosper and
you'll soon forget we were ever married.

The above was e-mailed to me this morning and is worth concideration if the red states insist on imposing their religious views on the rest of us.



One change that I believe would be a big improvement would be that, "Only the quanity of people in each state would dictate the number of Electors, Senators and/or Represenatives that each state would have. The way it is land gets to vote in several low population states.

Harold

Blue State Sports! It's just like the regular sports page, except we only cover the blue state teams.

And then Trogdor comes in the NIGHT!!!!

What about states like Iowa and New Mexico that are only barely red? Or Mecklenburg County, NC, which went blue, despite Bush winning the state in a landslide?

there were many counties Bush won in NY and CA, while Kerry won the states by a large margin.

Plus as someone noted IA and NM can hardly be considered red. They went to Bush by some 5-10k votes.

We can connect all the blue counties and red counties with skinny lines and end up with a map that looks like modern art meets Picasso. I'd only have to drive 50 miles north to live in New America.

Don't forget most "red" states are that color only because of the winner take all electoral college. Don't forget that they only gave all to the GOP because of massive fraud and vote suppression. Don't foget that nearly half of the people in those illlegally padded vote totals voted for Kerry. Don't forget about US in your fog of self righteousness and misplaced indignation.

accept their religious views. Or didn't you read that part?

"All You Blue State, Latte-Sucking, Queer-Loving, French-Coddling, Godless Coastal Elites need to get over your bad selves, and learn how to properly genuflect before your moral superiors in the heartland- specifically by abandoning your commitments to reproductive choice, gay rights, and the separation of church and state.... but don't you dare make any generalizations about people in, Say, Oklahoma, because that would be unfair..."

DID vote for Bush?

...Please?

n/t

as long as there is a Blue Family Who Lives in a Red State Relocation Program.

We Southerners sued for divorce a coupla centuries ago, but were dragged by the hair back into the marital bed for more you-know-what. Now that the dynamics have changed so profoundly, maybe it's worth another try...but I'd have to move north, and I'd miss my chitlins.
Seriously, though, the world doesn't really need one hegemonic Master anyhow.

place to start. Once the ball is rolling, other blue states may have enough support to follow.

Sorry, but I think that all the secession threads, and there have easily been a hundred or more since the election, are pointless, since there's no way it's going to happen, and divisive, since they lead to all kinds of smug self-righteousness on the part of those whose states went to Kerry by a few points.

The reality of the situation is that the states are all various shades of purple. The red state/blue state construct benefits the Republicans at our expense, because it feeds the notion that their support spans the country while ours is limited to narrow strips along the coast and a couple of enclaves in the urban midwest, when that is not the case at all. It also downplays the power of the reactionaries in "blue states," like Santorum, Pataki, Arnold, Romney, etc.

And, of course, there's the issue of how quickly many liberals have embraced "states rights," which is troubling in itself.

The sooner we drop the media-created and Rove-endorsed red/blue paradigm, the better for us.