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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by baud147258 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:23PM (#32171751)
Funny, in France one of the region that want to secede, Corsica, is like the lazy and scammy region, which is basically living off handouts from the rest of the country.
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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by phtrivier on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:47PM (#32172096)
They don't want to secede so much as to be able to decide for themselves how to the 1/95th of the government money that their headcount happen to mean.

(I have no data, but as suspect it's actually only a small minority of local politicians clinging to keeping a large part of a the small part of the pie.)

I suppose the metro government has something to keep in here too (national waters in Mediterranean see, maybe ? Links to the drug cartels ? No idea.)

But I suspect the French government that will announce true indépendance for Corsica would be met by forks and pitches _from_ the Islanders.)

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