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Leftist, rightist secessionist groups meet in TN

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk.

Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.

That sounds just fine to the League of the South, a conservative group that refuses to give up on Southern independence.

"We believe that an independent South, or Hawaii, Alaska, or Vermont would be better able to serve the interest of everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity," said Michael Hill of Killen, Ala., president of the League of the South.

The article goes on to give brief overviews of each group's history and motives, plus a couple paragraphs on contention between the League of the South and the Southern Poverty Law Center over whether or not the League is in fact a racist hate group.

Still...the United States of (insert regional chunk of America here)?

Hmmmm...are you guys fixing for another civil war?

When I read this on Yahoo today I was overwhelmed with a vision of how this would work out. I'm assuming that this is going to work like a wedding, but instead of bridge/groom seating it's going to be left/right seating on, well, the left and the right.

Of course, if you go by the idea that opposites attract, maybe in a few months you're going to be reading the wedding announcement of Moonbeam Sunflower Weintraub and Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Hickey.;)

So if the South secedes (again) and New England secedes, each creating their own nations (Crackertonia and Pinkotopia), that would put us Mid-Atlantic states right in the middle.:headshake

lol...very funny last paragraph there rich.

It would be a real downer if you were a neocon living in Pinkotopia or a liberal living in Crackertonia. I wonder if they would work out something where people could move to the new country of their choice or would they just build a big wall around the South, for example, and not let anyone in or out? It sounds like it could get very complicated, but its an interesting thought.

Mr.Show did a sketch where a "hate group" meeting, of all races and orientations, etc. planned to slice up the country into little regions where people could live with their own kind.

Through a series of humorous compromises, "Operation: Hell on Earth" ended up consisting of a van parked in the middle of the desert, playing "Caribean Queen" ...which the news media reported on under the heading of "Ocean in the Desert" ...

I guess you had to see it.