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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 05, 2012, 11:13:10 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021074311
Oh my.
Justice wanted (2,367 posts)
I seriously think we are seeing the beginning of America seperating into two or three countries.
There was a professor at a college I went to who taught Geography. He would saythat he believe in the next 100 to 150 years we will see America divided up into two or three nations.
I use to think it was an interesting theory BUT man I'm starting to think we are seeing the beginnings of the country being pulled apart.
The campfire's a couple of miles long, so I'll quote only nadin.
Remember, nadin has wet-dreams about things bad happening to America, although she wants to be sure to grab all she can get, before it collapses.
nadinbrzezinski (107,304 posts)
2. Yup, been singing this song and dance for a while
The move to civil war, as in the cold phase, started in the 1990s... but with the end of the American Empire, the Continental core will break up. In my opinion more than two to three countries. We are going to see four to five.
nadinbrzezinski (107,304 posts)
40. Seven Nations of North America is a good read
Indeed.
But yes, culturally there are many differences between the different regions. You know when it was damn noticeable? When my dad had surgery in Cleveland. I was not visiting. I lived there for a month. The flag flying at the Police Station might have been the flag of the United States, I might have been using dollars at the store, but it sure did not feel like the same country.
It was very strange.
Whoa.
Wait.
What?
Why wasn't nadin's now-late paternal ancestor using the free medical care down there in Mexico, instead of going up to Cleveland?
nadinbrzezinski (107,304 posts)
178. I know you feel that it was south bashing
But actually those are well known yes, facts. Red states (not just in the south) tend to take more in federal dollars than blue states.
I susect it's got to do with the well known allergic reaction to taxation.
There are also enough cultural divisions that in some ways we are indeed diverging into different countries. This is not just north versus south, that is but one of the divisions. The culture in the West is as divergent from the central plains, as the North is from the South. This happens to countries as part of their natural evolution, even in much smaller nations. Admitting that ain't bashing.
nadinbrzezinski (107,304 posts)
180. Well, Mexico has enough problems to even think about it
And reality is that Texas is enough of a pain, I see more of a wall, than a border. It would be interesting given the treaty f Guadalupe Hidalgo. I suspect there would be more likely unease.
Alaska, which was sold to the US by the Tsar, that is more likely, but again you are making a lot f assumptions. They are busy with a lot of internal issues right at the momemt. No, Canada is more likely actually.
Ooops, I have to quote another primitive.
The defrocked warped primitive, who's as mean as (and as ugly as) a snake:
Warpy (64,002 posts)
62. NM will have to rejoin Mexico because we sure as hell can't occupy the same small country with the nutcases in either Texas or Arizona.
It would suit me fine, too.
And here's the bitter old Vermontese cali primtiive:
cali (72,460 posts)
79. silly stuff. silly season.
As someone upthread said, who knows what the world will look like in 200 years, but barring the unforeseen extraordinary, this country will not be breaking up into smaller entities anytime within the coming decades. It's not even an interesting theory. It's pure speculation with no foundation.
Back to nadin:
nadinbrzezinski (107,304 posts)
196. It is in the air
And yes, I foresee lots of violence.
nadinbrzezinski (107,304 posts)
204. That is utopia
You think a new nation will not have conservatives in it's mst?
Actually, I strongly recommend one go to the original campfire, at the link above, to read it in all its flaming glory.