My long lost diary from yesterday chronicled some articles that cover discussions about secession of California for Blue People and South Carolina for Red People. So I'm recreating it, and have added some further information on legal opinion around the subject.
The idea proposed by idealists on both sides is that utopias can be created by simply seceding from the Union. In the case of the west coast, we would supposedly have a liberal utopia, and in the case of South Carolina, we would supposedly have a Christian fundamentalist utopia.
Both ideas are naive, and underscore a devolution in our ability to conduct politcal discourse. Like a child who grabs his/her marbles and runs home to mommy when he/she loses, the political equivalent are the secession proponents. These folks have even gone so far as to set up 527's for the purpose of taking their marbles and going "home".
But history has proven it will not work. Nothing exists in a vacuum, and a Red Utopia or Blue Utopia would in fact serve to further polarize rather than to foster a more perfect union.
More after the fold.
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