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In reply to the discussion: Maybe it's time to talk secession. [View all]Yavin4
(36,467 posts)34. We could start our own currency, social programs, and tax laws.
We have the economic base to do so. We could form trade agreements with other nations as well.
We wouldn't have to carry a Kentucky or a Mississippi or a Alabama who give us nothing but knuckle dragging senators.
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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