I don't think Florida would secede though. Perhaps the panhandle.
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Some Lunatics Petition White House for Secession
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I don't think Florida would secede though. Perhaps the panhandle.
William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote.
To name a few.
I don't mind "LOL don't let the door hit you the way out" jokes as a response to something as silly as that story, but fuck people who seriously suggest to kick people out the country because they disagree with them politically.
Twain is from Missouri, but I see your point. There's always going to be influential and timeless people born in every region, but I feel they'd have more of an incentive to move out of the area given the chance.
Congrats! You've seen Bourbon street at night. Fyi, that is arguably the shittiest part of the city and your opinion is invalidated if that is your only impression.
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-cities-for-singles/1
Hmm. Louisiana has a rather significant share of energy infrastructure, and one of the largest ports in the world. In a secession scenario, I'd love for our area to be the Union States' southern island outpost/adult playground/energy & shipping hub.
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And yes, there are parts of New Orleans that are a bit on the gritty side. But there are some parts of the city that are downright lovely, like few other places on this continent. I'll take this city's landscape and architecture over the soulless, ticky-tacky, "Hanna-Barbera looping background" that most of the rest of the country's built landscape resembles. (edit: seriously. Most of this country's built landscape is F-U-G-L-Y.)
Rebel Leader
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Dang, just realized it's been over 13 years since you guys have had a democrat governor. That seems to be a recent trend for Florida.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Obama only got a 4 year term last I heard, not an appointment to dictator-for-life
It's really interesting how Florida seems to vote Republican for internal elections and Democrat for national elections.
youngwerther
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People who live in the South deserve to die.
ba-dum-chh
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The US has so many belts... It's like a final fantasy character.
I thought it was interesting that Florida had a democrat governor from 1881-1967. Almost 100 years. Except for one prohibition party lol.
smokeandmirrors
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But what about his third term? I heard he's already campaigning for it.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
That asshole needs to go now
$100+ in gas per week, 100 miles a day
All just because of "saving money"
EDIT:
Let's not forget that Rick Scott was involved in the largest medicare fraud in history. IN HISTORY.
You Are Viewtiful
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I guess their "I'm moving to Canada" plan didn't work out so well.
Hope you don't mind gun control
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Can Florida join too?
I don't. I don't even own a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack.
Yup, Minnesota even shares Canadian values - the love of Hockey
Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, Flannery O'Connor, James Dickey, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Walker Percy, William Styron, Reynolds Price, Cormac McCarthy (who grew up in Tennessee), etc, etc.
This list really can go on and on and on and on.
Southern writers and their literature are a product of the region. These men and women may not have been so gifted in their craft had they been brought up in the Northeast.
As a liberal (I guess), I wouldn't live anywhere besides the South.
makingmusic476
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I'm in New Orleans. Let us separate from the state and stay in the U.S., plz. =(
Is it now? I worked in freight forwarding/international shipping for awhile and never heard of this port, lol.
One of my favorite things about being a liberal in the South is that we get a front-row seat to the choicest instances of meltdowns. There's nothing quite like Thanksgiving at Grandma's house right after the Democrats just won a big election. Once the older uncles start getting drunk and President Obama appears during a football game on TV - even just for a split moment - oooohhh man.. let the good times roll!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_New_Orleans
Idea: they can have everything south and west of the Mississippi River! I never really cared for Gretna and Marrero anyway. (Thomas Morestead and Garrett Hartley would have to move from English Turn into town. They'll enjoy Uptown.. I see Saints players at Whole Foods all the time.)
Noah's arc before the cut off.
Meus Renaissance
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Has the idea ever been seriously debated? Why couldn't a state secede if the majority wanted it?
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Guys I live in the south don't make me stay with these people!
Technically they could. It is almost guaranteed to end badly though. I would love to see a bible-belt state try it out on their own for a few years. Let them test how no taxes, a religious ran government, and no restrictions on gun ownership goes.
Maybe they can force the governor's house to secede from the rest of the USA. Then pick a new governor that doesn't live in Batsville.
Guys I live in the south don't make me stay with these people!
I think youre shit out of luck. I imagine the first thing those states would do would build a big damn fence to keep all of the illegals out of their country
We'll set up an underground railroad type thing to get people out.
Colonel Mustard
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HOLY CRAP I had no idea Washington had so many nukes.
:lol
phosphor112
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Let them pay for their own fucking Katrina.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Gee, I dunno, just most of the best restaurants in the country, and that little thing called the mouth of the Mississippi where most of your fuel and food get delivered from.
I've lived in New Orleans my whole life and let me say I'm just as tired of the ignorant Northerners who think we are all like these petition idiots as I am of the bible-beaters and racists.
You know what else is great? Being flooded out of your home and listening to west and east coasters ask why anyone would be stupid enough to live down here below sea level. No one asks that shit about NYC.
Oh, and considering the great authors from down here, and the fact that Jazz was the first truly uniquely American music, I'm not sure how to even dignify the cultural impact question.
Its all the submarines
Dubbedinenglish
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Closest point to Russia while out of range for their conventional attacks.
I say let the South go. But let me escape GA and we fucking keep South FLA.
IrishNinja
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wow...he called it though
oh man any southern state that wants them can have them
DING DING DING
Alligatorjandro
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The people who want to secede should move to South or North Dakota,Montana,Wyoming,Idaho,Oregon or any of those other states.
Holy fuck... Soo many freaking nukes... That's insane...
Kane Zakharov
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Talk about overkill, damn.
Not like anyone living there now.
Unknown One
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Makes me wonder why somebody like that is not behind bars.
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