Interesting – from Reuters:
A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.
A group of lawyers from the Democratic stronghold of Tucson and surrounding Pima County have launched a petition drive seeking support for a November 2012 ballot question on whether the 48th state should be divided in two…
This is a bit dicey for a conservative. The first thought is “good riddance” – you can set up on your own, tax and regulate yourself to your heart’s content and spin out of control in to complete collapse. The trouble with that is that then all those liberals will try to move to the conservative State…and even that wouldn’t be so bad, but then they’ll go right ahead and try to impose the same policies which just killed Liberal Land (here in Nevada we call it “Californication” – where liberals from California, fleeing the collapse of that liberal State, come here and start bothering us about environmental regulations, smoking bans and other such nonsense…all with the requisite tax and spending increases, of course). On the whole, it might be best to go with the “keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” advice on this.
On the other hand, this could become a nifty experiment for the United States – blessed as we are with our (partially atrophied) federal system. It would be a grand experiment in what works. And lots of States can be carved up. Even Nevada can – Democrat-heavy Clark County (think: Las Vegas) can move out and keep Harry Reid…the rest of us (and, yes, I’d move…Pahrump really isn’t such a bad place to live) can be Reid-less and start to build a rational government without having to deal with quite so many liberals (or, really, any at all outside parts of Reno). Just look at the “red/blue” county maps from the 2008 election and you can see where States break up.
We’d not only have north and south Arizona, but north and south New Mexico; north and south Texas (though I don’t know if we’d convince those Texans to break up); east and west California; east and west Oregon; east and west Washington; north and south Illinois; east and west Pennsylvania – the rest of the States either don’t have convenient demarcation lines, or are too solidly red or blue. Have it done and see where it leads – liberals are always saying they are smarter than the rest of us and know how to make piles of money…let’s see how it goes when they are on their own…and how the red areas do once freed from liberalism. Within ten years, we’ll know what works.
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