Imagine a world without red states. Without the southern states, the rest of us would enjoy:

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78. What about Howard Dean's 50-state strategy? Plus some of our greatest Dems...

... have come from the South, such as LBJ, and a whole slew of long-time DUers. Nearly all our best orators, black and white, have been from the South. Jazz, America's own music, is not just black, it's Southern. People of the Southern US have contributed much to making America what it is.

I could go on and on, even though except for visits to friends in Virginia and Florida, I have never seen the Southern states nor have I ever had any desire to live there. My roots are in Hawai'i and California, and I am pretty sure I would go into culture shock if I up and moved South forever. But that does not make "The South" alien and evil, much less the Southerners who live there.

These United States embrace many American cultures within our borders, and none of them, including yours, is either all wrong or all right. Oh, and in case you didn't notice, Washington D.C. is a Southern city.

Sorry to say it, but the OP's "Occupy Democrats.com" poster is just short-sighted, mean-spirited, and flat-out wrong. Our country would not become some Socialist paradise -- getting rid of the Southern states would be akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face.