RE: Background Material: A call for Help from US Easterners

--- "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
wrote:

> First, it wouldn't necessarily break by state--for
> example, northern
> Virginia might well go with DC/Maryland instead of
> the rest of Virginia.

Oh, I definitely have quite a few mid-state splits, so
that's no problem.  I just don't know the area well
enough to get specific.

> Second, how big are the new nations in the rest of
> the country?	ie are you
> looking for nations which are about as big as part
> of a state, two states,
> five states, what?  

2-5 states normally.

> 
> If you're looking for groups of about 10 states,
> frankly you're going to
> get the Confederacy again (maybe called something
> else officially but
> you'll see the Rebel battle flag about five seconds
> later).  Yeah, some
> people won't like it--but some people will just love
> it.  

My point was, ENOUGH people won't like it that it's
formation will be messy at best..... or there's going
to be a HUGE migration of African Americans away from
it.  I don't know what the demographics are, but what
% of the population is black in those states?  I just
don't think the re-institution of the Confederacy
would be as smooth and cut-and-dried as some might
think.	YMMV.

My wife's
> roommate in grad school, for instance, came from
> Louisiana and considered
> "damyankee" to be one word. 

You easterners and your silly feuds....

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"In life, you must try and be the type of person that your dog thinks
you are."

- Anonymous

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