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[stakebait]

Good Lord. Courtesy of officialgaiman, I’ve just found out that these people want a bunch of conservative Christians to move to South Carolina and then secede from the union to create a Christian republic in accordance with their (to my eyes, wacky) reading of the Constitution.

Which leads me to the burning question, why South Carolina?

I’m not entirely displeased with a solution in which they leave and we stay, since lately I’ve so often feared it would be the other way round. But wouldn’t it make more sense to take over, I don’t know, Hawaii? Something self-contained and not so close to Washington, DC? I don’t care how sympathetic to right wing Christians they are, people who need a whole hemisphere to feel safe will never let you keep it.

I suppose I’ll have to revise my “in case of world ending, go here” plan again. Even if they don’t succeed at seccession, large numbers of disgruntled extremist Christians are not healthy for bisexual Jewish atheist ACLU member to hang around. Drat. I liked South Carolina, it had good trees.

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[stakebait.livejournal.com]

True, and yet, not worth it. What's next, Oregon for Greenpeace, and Missouri for the Single Taxers?

[nightstalker.livejournal.com]

Why not? States rights have been far too de-emphasized - the Republicans only trot it out when it suits their purposes, and most Democrats don't even seem to remember it. (At least one state will still have an environment if Greenpeace takes it over.)

Now we just need to figure out what New York will be a haven for.

(And considering how NY State, and NYC in particular, gets consistently stiffed and robbed by the federal government, maybe succession wouldn't be that bad of an idea?)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Not for me, thanks. The US is my country. All of it, not just this piece. I don't want to have to go through customs to visit my mother, or my friends in Connecticut, Philly, and California. I'm not a fan of state's rights, to tell you the truth. So often they seem to me to come at the expense of individual rights, which the Federal courts protect.

Plus, frankly, they strike me as kind of outdated -- artifacts of slow travel and lack of instant communication. Especially here in the East where the states are so small that a couple can live in one and each commute to a different other, I don't want my own rights to change as I move around my ordinary days according to where I happen to be standing.