Rasmussen reports 17% of people support some form of secession.
Here is seems to be splitting up states into their blue and red parts, as the two ideological extremes don't want to live with each other.
Further, it isn't that much of a jump for people to start to consider seriously complete secession, or forming a whole new country out of one or more states.
I don't know if that is consistent or inconsistent with historical data, but to me it seems that if almost one fifth of people are so dissatisfied with how things are going that they think this way, there is trouble a-brewing.
Witness the fruits of electing a Socialist president who convinced the gullible that he was going to heal the country of it's divisions, yet instead widened them.
The problem with secession (from a Democrat point of view) is that if the states split up, the business people would flock to the new conservative states, creating economic development zones, and leaving them with all of the welfare queens.
ReplyDeleteThat is a problem for them, but would they recognize it? And if they do recognize it, would that not force them to change they way they deal with the producers in their own states? You would think so, but the disaster in Detroit argues otherwise.
DeleteI didn't say that they'd get it because they're not to bright at anything beyond strong arm tactics -- and you're right. Detroit is the progressive American dream. Their present rallying cry should be "Let's make all of America just like Detroit!"
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