RANT ON! Seriously, some days I do wonder if the US would be better regionalized. There is so much

[RKP5637]

division in this country, I don't see how it's ever going to come together. RANT OFF!

[Walleye]

1. It can't be done geographically, though, very complicated

I really think it would be a lot easier if we could figure someway just to agree to get along with each other

[Aristus]

2. If all we did was to cut Mississippi loose, every measure of national progress would leap upward.

I'm tired of dragging the substandard states around the dance floor. Let's call it a night.

[maxsolomon]

3. Every region has division.

Because it is an Urban/Rural split.

Liberals cluster in the cities, Cons have the exurbs and rural areas. Sure, there are exceptions but that's the general pattern.

Where I live, Washington State, everywhere east of the Cascades is blood red.

[llashram]

4. West

Central, East, South Coalition-Federation? Rant on, everything is in play these days it seems.

[newdayneeded]

5. I think we all know this is needed

But, would be impossible to make happen. I'm sure putin (I mean trump) who would be their leader, would invade our side of the nation within weeks of the split.

[Sympthsical]

6. I vote for city states

With intense rivalries that go to war against each other for slights real and imagined. Newark will hold the pass as Boston burns New York to the ground.

Imagine all the Twitter content that could be generated! We could pretend we're contributing something for days.

But seriously. This regional/split stuff is so stupid. It's not so much one region vs any other. It's predominantly urban vs. rural. I live about 45 minutes outside San Francisco, and I see giant Trump signs on my way to the produce market where suburban turns rural. Go a bit deeper and farther north, and you might as well be in Appalachia.

The problem in America is the Senate which gives disproportionate weight to that urban/rural divide. That isn't changing any time soon, so. Best find ways to deal with it.

[Claustrum]

7. It's very hard to do because there is democrats everywhere and there is republicans everywhere.

And if we are like countries in Europe, I am sure some red states will invade nearby blue states.

[CrispyQ]

8. We're not coming together, IMO.

We're too fractured & have too little time. In 10-20 years people from the southwest will be moving north to escape draught & heat & those along the coast will have to move inland. For all the pride we take in our big brain, we seem unable to visualize the dramatic & devastating changes coming to our planet & unwilling to do anything about it. As a collective, I think we're insane.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

9. The problem is

Stupid people and sociopaths.

[CrispyQ]

10. That was excellent!

They really are more dangerous. I know some college educated people who believe the most incredible bullshit. A couple are in my family. WTF?

[RKP5637]

12. Perfect!!! n/t

[Wednesdays]

11. They tried that once.

In 1860. How did that turn out?

[hunter]

13. It's baked into our Constitution.

Rural voters have disproportionately greater political clout per vote than urban voters.

It was set up this way to appease the slave states, where it's actually declared a slave is 3/5 of a person and their owner represents them.

If I was switching things up I'd change the U.S. Senate so that they served a twelve year term and their vote was proportional to the population of the state they represented.

The "founding fathers" imagined the Senate would be composed of wise older men, accomplished politicians who would put the brakes on a fickle and populist house as necessary.

What we have now is a bunch of Republican assholes who behave much like the mean girls on a middle school playground.

I don't know we could regionalize the U.S.A.. Even within California, the state I'm most familiar with, there are little islands of Blue within Red seas of "Let's Go Brandon!" flag flying coal rolling idiots, and a few islands of Red within the Blue, although these Red folks tend to vote for what they perceive as their own self-interest, be it tax cuts for the wealthy or reduced regulation of their industries.

[jalan48]

15. I'd like to see the NW become Cascadia. If we included a part of Canada we could get a better

health program as well.