IMHO, all efforts to get the new separate and hostile nations aborning inside the boundaries of the USA to cooperate are as useful as it was trying to get the Croatians, Serbs and Bosnians in the 1990's to continue to make believe that they were "Yugoslavs." Or to imagine that the Confederate states really wanted to be part of the Union anymore (which is why they had to be bludgeoned into it.)
The conventional date for the fall of the Western Roman Empire is 476, but in fact it had effectively ceased to exist for 100 years prior, Roman in name but mostly barbarian in fact. They just kept making believe. The Eastern Roman Empire continued on for almost another 1000 years til the soldiers of The Religion of Peace finally wiped it out in 1453.Do really believe that AG Eric Holder and Sheriff Joe Arpaio are both "Americans"? Do Mayor Bill deBlasio and Sarah Palin belong in the same country?
Aw, c'mon.
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This balkanization of the States dates back to the foundation of the country. All of the states different origins (debtors' colonies, personal gifts, religious refuges), and populations whose ancestors had very different reasons for moving there (religious liberty, social experimentation, a new start).
Remember, the states were initially considered sovereign nations united by common origin, geographical proximity, and shared goals. The Constitution only welded them together because nobody took the squabbling upstarts seriously, and the states needed a machine to turn them into a coherent unit on foreign affairs and affairs that impacted all of the states.
The Louisiana Purchase was made with the intention that the lands west of the Mississippi would be granted to the Blacks when slavery collapsed. We were never meant to get as big as we have. And now we are suffering the consequences of our outrageous overextension.
-Sean
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