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In reply to the discussion: Maybe it's time to talk secession. [View all]Turin_C3PO
(15,988 posts)30. Here's the problem as I see it.
If blue states seceded, would they still get Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, etc? Wouldnt the new, red, federal government have a monopoly on all the funds?
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Houston, Galveston, Corpus, and Brownsville make for a pretty damn blue coast my friend.
Bucky
Nov 2020
#25
Becoming part of a new country, a blue one, would be good reason for them to leave
mtnsnake
Nov 2020
#39
How? In the Civil War there were entire discrete states that wanted to secede as a group
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2020
#16
NY is a red state that looks blue because of NYC's massive voting block...
TreasonousBastard
Nov 2020
#37
Secession is out (remember the last time we tried it?) and I have no answer...
TreasonousBastard
Nov 2020
#32