For the depressed out there, here's some levity.
A friend at work sent this to me. (See below the fold).
Not that I endorse secession or anything, but this is probably what one would propose if one did. :c) I always did wonder how it would work with New England on one coast, California way over on the other coast, and that blue blotch by the Great Lakes. Well, here you go.
The irony, is that if this was the way the country was set up then the red states would be in bad shape, losing the profit centers of most of the major urban areas (as well as the New York financial markets and the Michigan automobile makers). Red Staters would almost be forced to buy foreign.
But, then again, the Blue Staters would lose the agricultural areas of the heartland.