The Rules of Secession Part III The Breakup

As the previous foutainheadzero post points out most secessionists of “reputable” note including Wall Street Journal writer Paul Starobin and former KGB operative Igor Panarin predict a regional break up of the United States. But in the real world looking at national secession movements throughout history including the most recent break up of the USSR this makes no sense what so ever. When people split apart the first thing they look for in their new country are people like them. That would be Homogeneous people who share the same beliefs and values not more of the same political strife and division under the old regime.

Looking at the WSJ map by Mr. Starobin the Michigan, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Minnesota are all grouped together. I grew up there and still visit whenever I can. That isn’t going to happen. People outside of Flint, Detroit, Pontiac and Benton Harbor despise the thugs in those parts of the state. Year after year unions and city politics divide the state. No way in hell will the people of Michigan or Wisconsin, Minnesota or the Upper Peninsula want anything to do with Detroit. Period. The whole idea of prosperity for generations of Michiganders has been to make enough money to get away from Detroit, Flint, East Lansing and other areas of third world conditions. To break up and then have a repeat of the old political divisions makes NO SENSE at all. To put it bluntly the 70’s bussing movement and integration efforts were a colossal failure in Michigan and it had the opposite affect on the people. The rest of Michigan will pay Canada to take over Detroit before they allow them to be a part of a new country.

Another thing Mr. Starobin and Mr. Panarin conveniently forget is the federal government has the best military in the world. To put it bluntly they have all the guns. And how do we dissolve that military? Split it up according to regional governments? I don’t think so. Anyone who is a student of Roman history knows the history is full of civil war between competing armies with split allegiances. Julius César leading the most notable and famous upsurge. Dividing the country up into small somewhat equal parts would be an invite to war between the parts looking to establish dominance. The Romans suffered years of civil war and destruction. The United States needs to avoid that fate.

The military budget is $515 billion. Any secession movement needs to form a country big enough to pay that bill. Soon Washington will be broke. As Frederic II said “an army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.” Texas can’t pay the bill alone. The military is priority one for the new government and paying for it will require millions of our most productive citizens. Citizens from Texas to California. From California to North Carolina.

The most logical dissolution of the United States is one based on common homogeneous ideas of freedom and liberty with traditional values. The most logical dissolution of the United States is based on red counties. That is the true split between Americans. The fly over states are being dominated in elections by big cities. It’s that simple. Look at the election map by counties. The sane majority is now the minority. Negros vote 95% democrat. Hispanics 65% democrat. Asians 62% democrat. Jews 78% democrat as well as contributing massive amounts of money towards the goal of highly centralized governments. All groups highly represented in high density urban areas. Let these people have their own government and set the remainder of the United States citizens be free under a constitution that reflect the original constitution of our founding fathers.

Texas is the natural leader for the right to have the new capital in Crawford, Texas. After all Bush set up Obama for this colossal failure so why not honor the guy. That $700 billion bail out was the impetus for this new revolution. Don’t know if the guy was smart enough to see the consequences of his actions but everyone else paying attention sure did.

Texas needs to print a currency based on the gold standard of old. Provide a constitution with the Fair Tax, limited government, and limited taxation at the federal level, no interference in education or private markets at the federal level. Texas needs to create the freest most libertarian constitution ever created or add amendments to our original constitution and let the states decide. Let the counties decide. Any neighboring county to the new union should be allowed to join with open arms. Hopeful the new union will look like the red county election map. The deposits can have their areas to for dictatorships isolated and alone. Or they can accept the principals of limited taxation, freedom and liberty. Their choice.