2014-02-22

As Goes California, So Goes the Nation

Tech investor’s plan to split California into six states closer to getting on ballot for vote
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper’s proposal to split California into six distinct states is gaining some traction.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen gave the go-ahead for Draper to begin collecting signatures for a petition that would put the measure on the ballot when Californians vote in November 2016.
There's no way the Congress will allow 10 new Senators from California and not allow states such as New York to break apart. Once the genie is out of the bottle, secession movements all across the nation will erupt.

This could even see the rise of city states, which makes a lot of sense. Politically, the cities are often the center of the Democratic party while the surrounding state is Republican. This has a lot to do, not with ideology, but with demographics and issues that separate rural and urban voters. Issues such as guns, for example. It makes sense for Illinois and Chicago to part ways, New York and New York City, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Georgia and Atlanta......

The international example of non-peaceful secession is unfolding at the moment: Ukraine at crossroads as talks of split increase
It's a scene increasingly playing out in other parts of the country, as party officials in the east and south talk of secession, holding an emergency meeting Saturday to consider what to do next even as the country's security service warns against a split.

As the nation spirals out of control, people on both sides are calling for a breakup — a move once considered unthinkable despite the deep divisions that exist in this former Soviet country.
Change the last few words into "this former global superpower" and it could be America's news from 20 years in the future.

Secession is coming. Secession at the state level will slow the push for national secession, but the creation of more states will turn America into even smaller and separate identities that will make the nation as a whole more ungovernable. However, in terms of social mood, these movements have to strike at the right moment and if there is enough state secession, it could suck the energy out of the secession movement as social mood then improves. If these movements fail, there will be an organized national effort that will likely erupt when the U.S. suffers a fundamental economic crisis, perhaps with the U.S. dollar at stake. When such a fundamental crisis erupts, anything goes.

Here is a map of the United States based on Facebook connections.

How To Split Up the U.S.

Descriptions of each region at the link.

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