Right Wing Nuts Hatch Batty Secession Schemes
Right Wing Nuts Hatch Batty Secession Schemesby Joshua Holland at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/13/right_wing_nuts_hatch_batty_secession_schemes/
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The media have framed these stories as a symptom of a growing rural-urban divide, and that’s true. Gun safety laws enacted after the Sandy Hook shootings sparked the move in both Colorado and Maryland. Marriage equality for gays and lesbians, and differences over energy policy, immigration (over which state governments have little control) and taxes are often cited as “irreconcilable differences” by these secession advocates.
But it’s also another sign of the difficulty a group that dominated American politics just a generation ago – a group political scientist Alan Abramowitz narrowed down to married white people who identify as Christians – are having adapting to a country that’s becoming more diverse, and embracing a different, more liberal set of cultural values. As Michael Rosenwald noted in the Washington Post, “with secessionists, the term ‘final straw’ comes up a lot.”
An analysis of census data by Moyers & Co. found that non-Hispanic whites make up 93.5 percent of the rebellious Colorado counties, a higher share than the 87.7 percent of the rest of the state’s population. Unsurprisingly, there’s also a significant partisan gap — only around 39 percent of those living in the break-away north voted for Obama in 2012, while the rest of the state supported him by a 52-46 margin, according to an analysis of election returns.
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It’s certainly true that with less than 20 percent of the population now living in rural America, the policy preferences of conservatives living in the countryside or in small towns are often overshadowed by large majorities who live in cities and their suburbs. But that’s true of a lot of Americans – liberal hipsters in Austin, Texas, don’t have much say in their state’s governance either, to cite just one example among many. But as Jason Bane of the blog ColoradoPols told a local Fox affiliate in Colorado, “In a democracy, there are lots of other people who have viewpoints, and they don’t all throw a tantrum just because a vote doesn’t go their way
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and I thought this ...
Hm ...
1. Goodbye NASA. Can't have our space program being in a foreign country. Any scientist of NASA would have to leave Texas. And all that technology with them. I wonder how much money that would pull from Texas' "surplus" ... with NASA's budget being .5% of the overall budget. ("Houston, you have a problem ..."
2. Goodbye Texas Rangers, Houston Astros. You really think that the Republican owners of those teams would give up all those U.S. dollars? (Then again, Toronto Blue Jays)
3. Goodbye Houston Texans, Dallas "America's Team" Cowboys. Again, the Republican owners definitely wouldn't want to lose those U.S. dollars. Or do they think the TX football fans would get excited over 16 weeks of Dallas vs Houston?
4. Goodbye Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs ... see 2 & 3.
