Re:About Ukraine
by apaprocki on Friday January 31, 2014 @09:43AM
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I agree. This is probably the best way to relate the situation to someone in the US. No one would take you seriously here if you proposed splitting "blue" states into a separate country and proposing a split there seems equally far fetched.
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Re:About Ukraine
by a8da6b0c91d on Friday January 31, 2014 @11:46AM
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Splitting up the United States is a perfectly reasonable idea and a lot of people take it seriously.
Given how integrated the economy and land use is, it is not a reasonable idea in the near term. If you actually were going to divide the US on a red / blue split then it would be more appropriate at a county level[1] and would result in a bunch of city-states and one big land area[2].
1) states are not really granular enough given the existence of "battleground states" and what that means for election divisions
2) LA and SF might want to buy a desalination plant fairly quickly
Re:About Ukraine
by a8da6b0c91d on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:56PM
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The split is not red-blue. There are distinct regional cultures in America that might be called nations. Scroll down and look at the county map in the link. Read "American Nations".
Yeah, I saw the MN combined with ND and realized whoever researched it (I do believe the original map is a Russian professor) has no real clue on modern American and is looking mainly at immigration patterns.