What would you think if states started seceding from the U.S.?

well, if this happened it would be of course in the south. and if so, i say let’em go!

New Jersey can leave if they want…

It wouldn’t be feasible for any state to leave the union at this point.
For the country to fragment like that, there would have to a be a trigger.
It would probably be something similar to the fall of the USSR.

Let em go. They’ll come crawling back when they lose their giant federal subsidies and military contracts. I’m looking at you, Texas and Mississippi.

More than likely chunks of US would rather be divided than independent states, than those chunks bought by countries we’re in debt like China, some to EU, some Canada,some Mexico, Japan.

I think it would be more reasonable to give each state more power over itself.

Also, my apartment will be seceding. Clothing optional country. Inquire within.

let them. then invade.

Assuming they’re southern states, good riddance.

I actually don’t think the Civil War was worth fighting. We should have let them secede.

But SLAVERY! Yes—slavery was horrible. But then, the situation black Americans found themselves in after 1865 was also horrible. For 100 years they lacked basic rights that white people had. Lynchings were common. They were unable to receive decent educations or find decent work. It took a civil rights movement to materially improve their situation, and that didn’t require a war that caused more than 600,000 deaths. That is a HUGE number of deaths.

Also, I feel pretty confident that slavery was simply not a sustainable economic system when faced with competition from an industrialized economy. It would have died a natural death, with much less bloodshed, and resulting in about the same improvements for blacks over time. And the United States would no longer be bogged down with southern states full of superstitious, hateful conservatives.

Secession would probably be bad for PR haha. I don’t think it would really work that well, but I always say that I think the Blue states should leave the Red States, and they can fend for themselves and see how well their conservative country is run. Also, the U.S. is too big. It’s hard to run a country so large.

Oooh, I did a question sort of similar to this asking if each state was a separate country where would you want to live.

If states started to secede I would run out of the south, I am in TN now, I would not want to get caught here without the federal government having some influence. Hopefully, FL would stay with the north and hold on. I can’t imagine a northern state wanting to secede.

I will help them pack.

I would be planning for the next world war, I think. Probably I’d move to Canada, somewhere far, far away from where the bombs will be falling.

I would think, when will cities start seceding from their states. Free imperial city Dallas. Free imperial city Houston. Next, those cities would fall apart with tribal leaders ruling their urban districts.

My point: in most cases secessions don’t make sense in 2009. Considering it is a waste of time. The world has more important problems to solve.

@Qingu Not all people in the southern states are conservatives, not all conservatives are hateful, and more than anything they’re not all superstitious. We just have a bunch of vocal stupid people. Those of us who aren’t stupid tend to not get heard over the masses of the stupid.

Yis yis. My fiancée is a southron.

I wish people would say whether they are fiscal conservatives or social conservatives, because there are many people who are socially liberal, but fiscally conservative, which I think encompasses the old time NE republicans who are basically non-existent now, because of what the religious right wing has done to the republican party.

Interesting how everyone is dumping the south. No one seems to care about losing that land or population (population in terms of pure numbers, not as a judgment on.what they do or believe).

@Qingu And you judge all of us on the basis of… what? One? I’m a Southern liberal. Not such a rare breed when you get down to it, just a quiet one.

@avvooooooo I wish y’all would speak up!

@JLeslie And get my car wanked off on? Or worse?