The New South

[redandguilty]

Tuesday, the White House petition website has been flooded by a series of secession requests

All told, petitions have been filed on behalf of 20 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57548572/states-petition-to-secede-from-union/

 

[TheVictors]

Yeah, and in other news Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are still moving to Canada with Bush's re-election in 2004.

But I say Fuck it, let the South get its secession - we'll all be better off for it!

Better Off Without Them...!

 

[redandguilty]

Texas is almost certain to hit 25k meaning the administration will have to respond according to their rules.

 

[redandguilty]

Strike that. Texas has already hit 25k.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions/popular/0/2/0/

 

[TheVictors]

I think it's funny to have such a populist response to a ..... Populist event like an Election. Reminds me of Glenn Beck's staged events in DC and the threats of tyranny and totalitarianism in the wake of 2008.

 

[spockmaster]

what is this, 1860?

 

[TheVictors]

even the article indicates it's all just posturing -- witness the backasswards South Carolina.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Thing is, for the first time in 6 years, it's likely the SEC is not going to be represented in the BCS national championship game.

So people gotta find shit to do, I guess...

 

[redandguilty]

So how will they respond. Will they issue a serious response or just say "no" or be funny about it?

 

[byco42]

It's not geographical; it's ideological. Eight of those states are above the Mason-Dixon line.

 

[redandguilty]

It's not geographical; it's ideological. Eight of those states are above the Mason-Dixon line.

You need so few to get it going, I'm surprised there isn't a poll for every state.

 

[spockmaster]

It's not geographical; it's ideological. Eight of those states are above the Mason-Dixon line.

in a modern context "the South" has mostly become the ideological region and not just the geographic region since it has now spread from the south into many/most of the plains states. at least, thats how i treat it. if i want to refer to the old idea of "the South" I usually say the
"Deep South".

 

[Thumb]

it's not geographical; it's evangelical. Eight of those states are above the mason-dixon line.

ftfy

 

[byco42]

But when the OWS protesters shit on cars, rape women, burn down a section of Oakland, expect cities to provide services like food and water, and say that they want to overthrow the government and replace it with a Marxian state, they are exercising their right of free speech. Nancy Pelosi salutes them. Van Jones says that 2,000 OWS candidates are going to run in 2012.

Oh, wait! They are not all like that? Neither are all people who signed petitions evangelicals.

Here's some right smart thinkin' on the part of an Apparatchik who doesn't realize he or she could be next: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...igned-petition-secede-and-exile-them/ZbMjcwPf