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Texas and the south, with their gender aware, macho culture, would whip the crap out of the wussified, gender confused, suck-at-football blue state America, lol!
That's why the last two Super Bowls were between blue state teams?
Want to take on Blue State Oregon Ducks...they would waste you..yes even you Alabama.
I certainly wish the Alabama team had lost the other night so that Oregon and Kansas State could play in the BCS title game. I bet on Kansas State and their quarterback. Okay?
Red staters, if you don't like the election results, by all means, SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I would be the first to vote Texas, Arizona, and the bible belt out. We chose "socialism" and a bunch of us voted for gay marriage and legalized marijuana, while Arkansas didn't even want medical marijuana.
By all means tea partiers, go ahead and break free of our liberal, godless union. We would be better off without you anyway.
You know, even as a Gary Johnson voter who has been largely indifferent to the question of Obama or Romney for the last, oh, year and half, I've honestly never been as disgusted with the United States as I was last night (and yes, I remember 2004). I mean genuinely, thoroughly, unabashedly disgusted.
Why?
I've never personally accepted the notion that the U.S. is a fundamentally conservative or "right-of-center" country, but I have, however, always regarded the U.S. as a nation with a stronger libertarian (emphasis on the lower-case "l") tradition, past and present, than any other country in the modern world. In other words, I've generally tried to avoid viewing the U.S. in terms of Democrat vs Republican, Red vs Blue, Us vs Them, etc., and instead tried to focus on that fact that, as I saw it, average Americans shared a common ideolgocical/philosophical orientation that could usually transcend our fallacious political spectrum.
The re-election of President Obama, at least in my mind, right here and now, destroys any perception of existing American unity that I've ever had. While I do think that Mitt Romney would be just as antithetical to our political traditions as our re-elected president, I'm horrified that onwards of 50% of this country has actually seen, for the past four years, this polarizing, sociopathic "leader" of ours behaving like a glorified monarch (you know, in keeping with the grand tradition of his predecessor), yet affirmed him via the democratic process--and that's disgusting. Yes, America, you upheld the right of a king to rule, not once but twice. Impressive?
Anyway, within that 50+ percent of Americans who view Obama's presidency as a positive, we have people like victorianpunk (and, in fact, many, many others here on C-D alone) who believe that significant factions of Americans should no longer be citizens of their county and should have their states voted out (I guess?) of the union. While I'm certainly no stereotypical conservative from the Bible Belt, I'm fairly positive that even people like me (who merely dislike things such as legislative coercion, executive fiat, social engineering, etc.) and states similar to mine (a blue-"ish" state that still largely values its autonomy in relationship to the federal government) are unwelcome in this rising "new America" we've been hearing about for the last 18 hours.
And you know what? I'm not so sure that I want to be included in the "new America."
We can only speculate what the future has in store for the U.S. as it exists today, but who knows? Perhaps there really are two (if not more) Americas that will have to one day go their separate ways, regardless of whether they like it or not. As it stands, I'd personally have few complaints.
Red staters, if you don't like the election results, by all means, SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I would be the first to vote Texas, Arizona, and the bible belt out. We chose "socialism" and a bunch of us voted for gay marriage and legalized marijuana, while Arkansas didn't even want medical marijuana.
By all means tea partiers, go ahead and break free of our liberal, godless union. We would be better off without you anyway:
Haha, I just saw this thread after posting this in the "I was wrong" thread:
Republicans still don't get the demographics of this country. They think it is still the country of powerful white men (Reagan, etc). They don't want to govern the whole country, they want to govern their own kind— the 53 % or so—those who either inherited or positioned for a great deal of wealth. It's too bad the Republicans cannot homestead in the red states, forming their own union. They would do so well at governing (er, not governing) themselves. It would kind of be what the Wild West once was - no government anything, just shooting it out in the streets. Ah, lawlessness.
You know, even as a Gary Johnson voter who has been largely indifferent to the question of Obama or Romney for the last, oh, year and half, I've honestly never been as disgusted with the United States as I was last night (and yes, I remember 2004). I mean genuinely, thoroughly, unabashedly disgusted.
Why?
I've never personally accepted the notion that the U.S. is a fundamentally conservative or "right-of-center" country, but I have, however, always regarded the U.S. as a nation with a stronger libertarian (emphasis on the lower-case "l") tradition, past and present, than any other country in the modern world. In other words, I've generally tried to avoid viewing the U.S. in terms of Democrat vs Republican, Red vs Blue, Us vs Them, etc., and instead tried to focus on that fact that, as I saw it, average Americans shared a common ideolgocical/philosophical orientation that could usually transcend our fallacious political spectrum.
The re-election of President Obama, at least in my mind, right here and now, destroys any perception of existing American unity that I've ever had. While I do think that Mitt Romney would be just as antithetical to our political traditions as our re-elected president, I'm horrified that onwards of 50% of this country has actually seen, for the past four years, this polarizing, sociopathic "leader" of ours behaving like a glorified monarch (you know, in keeping with the grand tradition of his predecessor), yet affirmed him via the democratic process--and that's disgusting. Yes, America, you upheld the right of a king to rule, not once but twice. Impressive?
Anyway, within that 50+ percent of Americans who view Obama's presidency as a positive, we have people like victorianpunk (and, in fact, many, many others here on C-D alone) who believe that significant factions of Americans should no longer be citizens of their county and should have their states voted out (I guess?) of the union. While I'm certainly no stereotypical conservative from the Bible Belt, I'm fairly positive that even people like me (who merely dislike things such as legislative coercion, executive fiat, social engineering, etc.) and states similar to mine (a blue-"ish" state that still largely values its autonomy in relationship to the federal government) are unwelcome in this rising "new America" we've been hearing about for the last 18 hours.
And you know what? I'm not so sure that I want to be included in the "new America."
We can only speculate what the future has in store for the U.S. as it exists today, but who knows? Perhaps there really are two (if not more) Americas that will have to one day go their separate ways, regardless of whether they like it or not. As it stands, I'd personally have few complaints.
Let me say this (maybe it deserves its own thread) we as a "nation" were NEVER UNITED TO BEGIN WITH! New England and the South had little in common during the Revolution and they only united to fight a common enemy (the British) The Constitution only came into being after some rebellions (like Shay's) and the Articles of Confederation were thrown out. Then the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement with the federal government sending soldiers into the South to instill order etc.
Look at the history and face the truth: WE HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS GREAT UNITED NATION PEOPLE SAY WE ARE. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN UNITED ONLY BY A SHARED GOVERNMENT.
Here in Washington we are a left of center state which goes more and more to the left every year. Here in Washington, socialists like me (there, I said it) are not out of the ordinary. We have NOTHING IN COMMON with Alabama, Mississippi and the like.
If the Southern Redneck states can't get their act together and stop telling us in Blue America how to live, we should just go our separate ways and be done with it.
I am a gay friendly, pro-abortion, pro-marijuana, anti-war, pro-socialized healthcare, pro-strong environmental regulation, pro-across the board amnesty, pro-separation of church and state and pro-Scandinavian style Social-Democracy man and in my home state, I AM THE MAJORITY. And I will no longer apologize for my views and more of us will no longer sit quietly.
Another good point. When Obama was first elected Rick Perry mentioned secession and some Texans cheered the idea. I'd love to see Texas try that when yesterday Obama got 41% of the vote in Texas. Sounds like a civil war would break out in Texas if they seceded, or at the very least a vicious insurgency would crop up and wreck the state for years to come.
Cross migration. Same thing happened when Pakistan separated from India. Problem solved.
As someone that spent their younger years listening to the need to fight socialism, thinking it's a great thing is disgusting. If socialism is so great, why is Greece dying? Why did the USSR fail?
Why is Denmark such a great country with a lower national debt than we have? Why is Finland doing so well? Why is the economy of Brazil suddenly taking off?
If laissez fair economics are so great, why is Somalia not a paradise? Why is there so much poverty in Hong Kong?
The USSR was communism, not social-democracy. Greece had a problem with tax cheats like Romney not paying their share. End of story.
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and a bunch of us voted for gay marriage and legalized marijuana, while Arkansas didn't even want medical marijuana. 
