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Let the Worst States Secede--Goodbye South Carolina, Arizona, and Texas

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Pancakehiatt of UT 9:12PM September 30, 2011

Jamie, instead of continuing your mindless communist destruction of a once great country, why don't you just move? Besides the fact that no one would want you, maybe you could be like an illegal cockroach and sneak into someone elses country to live off welfare? I for one would gladly pay for your one way airfare, free of charge! Vomitous liberals like yourself who sneak into the back room to "cut yourselves" and then come out under the umbrella of freedom to inflict your self destructive tendencies on the only country that would have you, sicken me. You should be ashamed to speak publicly. The day is soon to arrive when your "openness" will cease. I will enjoy that day.

Snarky American of SC 4:24PM August 23, 2011

Starting line up - Arizona, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisanna, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansaw, North Carolina (surrounded by seceding states just as in May 1861), Ohio (sick of the union), Vermont, Montana, Washington State, Idaho, and then some other states may join in.
Obama has already set the stage with the UN for our sucession by the political and UN peace keeping troops in Lybia and Egypt. All that is needed now is our sucession and appeal to the UN as a soverign nation. Obama would have to stand down and allow our seperation from this over-bearing, over taxation, communist socialist government that this nation has become. The US government is way worse today than Great Britian was prior to 1776. It is time to secede from the overbearing King Obama.

Sucession from Britian USA of TN 2:33AM July 06, 2011

The ignorant bumpkin southerns need to be the ones to secede. If we "the southern states" secede from the Union we can starve those idiot, smart mouth punks who call us all sorts of names. It is ironic how low they still think of us, just like they did in 1860.
I am all for succession from this Union. I am sick of having to work hard, take drug test for my job and having my tax dollars being given away freely to the lazy punks up north or other races, who does not have to take a drug test to get that welfare money. It is a sicken cycle. Slavery continues, but today it is the white man who is slaving for a lazy black man or mixed raced to sit at home and do drugs.
Yeah, I am a southern and I am a good ole boy. I do support the sucession and I hope when we do secede people like you starve to death since most the food is produced in the states that make up the old south, or at least enough food is produced here to put a large dent in the supply of food in your state. So go get your prissy soft hands dirty and pray you can produce enough of your own food to survive if we every do secede.

Johnnie Reb of NC 2:25AM July 06, 2011

red states suck. They have the worst education of the nation, and use more federal $$$ then they produce....

Dong of WA 12:17PM June 09, 2011

Wow, I am amazed at the vitriolic comments and the ignorant representation of the southern states. As a Libertarian, Atheist and Southerner, I take umbrage to the notion that southerners are ignorant backwater country bumbkins with no education. Furthermore, I am astounded at the arrogance delivered by the so-called progressives.
If "Progressives" were truly progressive as they believe they would be doing more to bring the nation together rather than to divide it. As it stands, we instead have "Progressives" attempting to prove their superiority by ridiculing those views they hold in contempt when they should be attempting to persuade. Unfortunately, they appear to lack confidence in their own vocabulary and fear what they are unable to sway.
My final salvo regarding the so-called well-educated and progressive masses within the blue states is this; I live in California. Every day I come into contact with people who do not have the slightest notion of what evolution is. The comments range from "Evolution is just a theory" to "Evolution doesn't address how life began" and there are many others. In fact, of the people with whom I come into contact with fewer than 1% even know what evolution is. And the majority who do know what it is still think it's "just a theory" and none can sum it up in a single sentence. Without looking it up - can any of you blue state progressives do so?

H Dean of CA 4:36AM June 09, 2011

I was unaware that anyone in the red states actually worked considering they're the biggest welfare suckers in the country. 17 of the 20 (85%) states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are Red States. Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed -- so much for your idea that we're mooching off you "patriots." Besides, most of the South still wants to fly the Confederate flag, how patriotic is that?
Oh, and no one wants to go to Oklahoma or anywhere else in the south, if you haven't noticed. Visiting a bunch of under-educated, uncultured hillbilly trash doesn't exactly sound like a good vacation. We're not one of you, and thank God for that!
Sometimes I don't wonder if Abraham Lincoln did us all a disservice by not letting the South secede. I think we'd all be better off trimming the fat, literally and figuratively, from this great nation.

Desdemona of MN 10:19AM April 05, 2011

to little ol me go ahead and give us alabama redstone arsenel is in huntsville and is the home and birth place of the javelien rocket anti-tank weapon with fire and forget capabilities me and my dad drove by it every day on our way to work and oakridge is in tennesse so we get that huge supply of uranium hum not sounding so good for ya now is it you wantabe whore to the united nations and read your damn U.S. history book over again there's a reason tennesse is called the volunteer state and it aint because of the damn football team either god and you people think were illiterate im glad i was born in tennesse and if i ever meet you in person im going to treat you to a grundy county tradition watch your step there's alot of cliffs and that first step can be a doozy oops.

Marcus Irvin of TN 5:33AM February 13, 2011

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Michael Bloomberg. You get John Boehner! We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Opry Land. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue; you get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Red South, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that True Blue will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq and Afghanistan at once. If you need people to fight, ask your tea partiers. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all the mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson, the University of Georgia, and The Citadel.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you!
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, and 61 percent of you idiots believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties (see notes on pregnancy, divorce and violence).
Sincerely,
Blue States

lee G of MA 2:56PM November 05, 2010

Well aint you a peach. It's great how all these enlightened, holier than thou, socialist, progressive folks think they are so much more superior to the rest of us. Us..meaning the patriots of this nation who keep the money flowing to your social programs that for some reason don't include us. That's right.. I forgot, we are the working class of America and just here to fund your socialist programs. That's enough niceties...Piss on you and all your ilk, come on down to okla and talk your trash to someones face. This federal government is out of control and its time for a Tea Party. We can either sit back and take these socialist's bs or we can do something about it. REMEMBER THESE PRICKS IN NOVEMBER FOLKS, they aint one of us. They consider themselves our benefactors and rulers. They have forgotten who 'We The People' are. It's time we remind them!

Jim of OK 5:22PM September 23, 2010