Do you support Federalism or do you think a more Unitary system would be better?

[kurt_cagle]

2. Not a chance in hell

I think it is far more likely that the United States (and possibly Canada and northern Mexico) will disintegrate in the next fifty years into eight to ten distinct countries, more or less aligning with the geohistorical regions - Deep South (aka The Free Republic of America), Appalachia, Caribbea, The Maritimes, New Hudson, Heartland, Ubuntu, Yosemite, Mexico Norte, Cascadia, Quebec, and The People. Part of the problem that the United States has is that there is too much fundamental disagreement about basic things - the importance of community vs. the pursuit of liberty, the role and power that business has, the need for defense vs. the abuse of power, the importance of education vs. the right to teach your own children, what part religion should play in government, and on and on and on. These differences are causing fractures and faultlines to emerge that are becoming too pervasive to ignore and too wide to repair. I'd also make the argument that one part of the agenda of the right is in fact to force this break-up.