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[just1voice]

2. Great questions, I ask myself the same things

A boundary was actually drawn in 1820, the 36-30 line, as part of the Missouri Compromise that to this day is still where such a boundary would be drawn to divide the North and the South. Back then there were also 2 very clear schools of thought: the people who thought the South was an evil regime that should be burned to the ground and the people who wanted to work with the South instead and create a better union. The result was a war in which at least 600,000 people died and portions of the South were actually burned to the ground.

The problems from that time period that continue today are mostly what occurred after the Civil War, the revisionist history, the corruption and the denial. A great article on it was just published -- http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/153598/why_the_white_south_is_still_in_denial_about_slavery/.

You are absolutely correct, the U.S. would be a much better country without the states below 36-30 but the big problem with that is there are millions of democrats in the South too, the South isn't just made up of the corrupt politicians that steal elections there. The demographics are much different today than they were 150 years ago and the politics of the South now shift frequently, often times to the left.

What the U.S. really needs is to address corruption everywhere, including but certainly not limited to the South.