So Keith ran the stats for our lovely

[nadinbrzezinski]

we would love to secede from the Union

I could not help but to notice the same pattern that Keith (and Hanson from The Nation) noticed. That majority that wants to leave, is not just a minority, but it is mostly republican and southern. Problem is that numbers like that did lead to the last civil war. I wonder if our dear reactionaries will next go back to the Loyalists of the American Revolution. But I say this to you, if you think this is a joke... and I hope to be wrong, we might be in for a very nasty surprise.

Oh and republicans... it is treason.

I figured I'd add that just in-case you are readying it.

It is also ahem ironic. These colors don't run... except when we need to throw a tanter tantrum.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. The GOPers are very good at temper tantrums. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yeah but the numbers did ahem catch my attention

like oh Calchoun's south and all that.

It also took 1\3 to rebel against the king, they are more than one third.

:-)

Why I say, we have to take these idiots seriously... then again the South will indeed rise again, so it seems.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. What exactly would the South do if it did indeed "rise again"? n/t

[Orrex]

4. They'd probably seek control over the media and the entire political agenda

Hey, wait a minute...

[ColbertWatcher]

7. LOL!

But, that's it!?

They take over the South and then, control CNN?

I know I'm missing something ...

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. best case, all bluff, kind of sound and fury

worst case it will not look like the civil war, as must modern civil wars have plenty of ahem, irregular warfare in the mix. Won't be pretty.

Most likely I expect the militias to do something in the middle, regardless, expecting the revolt to follow, a revolt that will never come. In that sense they are dangerous mostly due to the federal and state response to ahem, acts of internal terrorism. Use the correct terms at all times

[SoxFan]

5. I wouldn't worry too much

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28559

[csziggy]

10. OMG, The Onion nailed it again! LMAO n/t

[SoxFan]

11. Damn Yankee!

"The way things stand, things in the Deep South almost have to get better. Otherwise, the people who live there will devolve into preverbal, overall-wearing sub-morons within a century," said Professor Dennis Lassiter of Princeton University. "Either Southerners will start improving themselves, or they'll be sold to middle-class Asians as pets."

:rofl:

[RoyGBiv]

6. As an aside ...

Related, but still, an aside ...

You should see what all this mess has done to history discussion groups with a large contingent of southern-oriented Civil War "buffs."

We ("we" being those who participate in such groups) had this in the mid-90s also when the combination of the wide VHS release of Gettysburg and the popularization of Usenet via AOL resulted in an influx of people who had somehow managed to read everything ever written by William Dunning and Douglas Southall Freeman but who couldn't have named a current working historian if their lives had depended on it invaded.

It has somehow made the "question" of the legality of secession popular again.

IT'S NOT A QUESTION!

Ahem. Sorry. Frustrations.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. You know the historians of Mexico have a different problem

everybody has read Krauze, but good lord Alaman? WHO THE ... is that?

It is exactly 180 of that... and for the record I like Krauze..

[OswegoAtheist]

12. If Georgia seceded...

...how would they handle the little problem of there already being a country named "Georgia"?

Oswego "Georgias on my mind" Atheist

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Easy, like most Americans they hardly realize

there is anything outside the US.

After the secession, there is nothing outside Georgia.

Sadly I am not kidding.