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To: elmatador who wrote (63227)	5/1/2010 5:06:52 PM
From: energyplay	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

The US is more mixed and homogeneous than you imagine. It has a few places that have some degree of distinction, like blueberries in a muffin, but it is mostly muffin. Those places are New Orleans, Miami, San Francisco, Hawaii, Utah, Northern New Mexico, Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado, , Arizona North of the Grand Canyon (called the Arizona strip). We can also include some of the yet to be assimilated places, like the Russian areas of New York City. The total number of people in these places that feel really different from the rest of the US population is probably well under 15 million. The number that might want to leave the union is far smaller. *** New Englanders think that much of Midwest is like them, because it is, and much of the Midwest was settled by New Englanders. The Russian guy really has no clue. Some think Southerners are rednecks, see Howard Dean. The biggest city in Oregon is Portland, because it was settled by people from Maine and Massachusetts, and they flip a coin to see if the name would be Boston or Portland. *** A vast majority of US citizens are strongly dedicated to keeping all the states of the US together. The issue of the integrity of the union was settled in blood 1861-1865. >>> While many political and cultural factions would like to marginalize and disenfranchise (or even disembowel) their opponents, no one will give up an inch (of state) territory. People who dislike Sarah Palin (line forms over there, take a number, no pushing) will not let go of any of Alaska.