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Politics : Is Secession Doable?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (1021)11/10/2004 3:38:24 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1968
 
I haven't said secession is likely or even possible. I just noted that your land area argument doesn't hold water.

You just incorrectly noted that it doesn't hold water. The people who live on an area of land have a large effect on what happens to that land. Even if a Kerry voter equals a vote for secession the people in an area like North Eastern CA (solidly Red and sourounded on all sides by solidly Red areas) aren't likely to go against what they see as their country in order to follow LA and San Francisco. In the Civil War you had the border states and "brother vs. brother" but still the division was a lot clearer. "Land doesn't vote" is an argument against a strawman. WV "voted" to stay in the Union even though the more populated areas of the state it had been part of did not.

as it would be to the country if 75K folks had voted Kerry instead of Bush in OH.

There are other states that would have shifted without a huge number of votes shifting. PA was closer to going for Bush than OH was to shifting to Kerry, but you don't here much about that. If they swapped Bush still would have won.

Other states that were real close NH (5000 votes would have flipped it to Bush), Iowa and New Mexico (both 50% Bush 49% Kerry), Wisconsin (50/49 the other way)

Tim
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