Folks---
You all do realize that these secession petitions have been filed in
30 states?
and not all of them red states.
http://www.huffingto..._n_2120410.html
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Here's a list of states where residents have filed secession petitions in recent days: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming
So not just Texas or red states.
I suspect that there are a lot of people signing on a bunch of different petitions....remember I said that I looked at the Texas petition and there were a LOT of signatures of people who are not Texans. and the news coverage of this has pointed the way to a place to show how angry/disgruntled they are. (I suspect that if one really checks, some people have signed several petitions for states in which they do not live just because they can)
Once this made the news, the number of petitions to secede jumped as did the number of signatures. Texas' went from 25,000 to 75,000 in no time flat after news broke....again not all Texans and btw population at last census was approx 24 million. So again....a small percentage of total population.
this secession thing is nothing but sour grapes over election results.
Edited by Tricia, 14 November 2012 - 08:01 PM.
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