Topic: Could the United States have a 51st state sometime within our lifetimes?

Anonymous A started this discussion 12 years ago #33,723

It appears that counties in Northern California and Oregon want to secede and form their own state.

What do you think about a possible new state?

http://topconservativenews.com/2014/02/california-could-split-into-multiple-pieces/

dw ltd joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #466,216

long live cascadia

squeegee !first/o5zA joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 5 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #466,220

as far as i know only texas can break up and become smaller states without the consent of US congress. It's part of the texas constitution (it's the clause that makes people think texas can secede. we can't, but we can become 5 individual states at any time we like.)
Also texas is really the only state solvent enough to actually do this... we even have our own military.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S92fTz_-kQE

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squeegee !first/o5zA double-posted this 12 years ago, 4 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #466,223

also, interestingly enough, Texas is the only state that issues it's own Purple Heart to it's own military.

Killer Lettuce 3D !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 3 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #466,228

@466,220 (squeegee !first/o5zA)
How come you guys get such special privilidges? I'm guessing it's because Texas is somehow more powerful than other states?

squeegee !first/o5zA replied with this 12 years ago, 3 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #466,232

@previous (Killer Lettuce 3D !!iNo3FkiZx)
Texas was an independent republic, so when they joined up in 1846 we got some special provisions because our Presidents were badasses.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #466,236

The idea to split California into multiple states has been tossed around since at least the 60s, and probably farther back. It seems to pop up at least once per decade as something fun to consider, but the issue never seems to gain any serious traction. So... I wouldn't bet on it.

EDIT: Wikipedia apparently has a whole page on the history of California partition and secession movements.

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decibelmilliwatts !!beW+FQoWB joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #466,371

It already exists — it's between Lebanon and Egypt.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,458

> implying the US exists in a decade.

Not paying attention to economic indicators, I see...

squeegee !first/o5zA replied with this 12 years ago, 23 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,479

@466,228 (Killer Lettuce 3D !!iNo3FkiZx)
also if texas was it's own nation again our GDP would be like 14 or something in the world, right between russia and australia.
It's actually pretty wealthy as fuck around here, even our poor people live in brick and lumber houses and have big screen TVs and iPads.

citation: http://econpost.com/texaseconomy/texas-economy-ranking-world

oh, but fuck california and their #8 ranking, it's only because of the bible belt that we don't have all that sweet sweet tech money. But we'll get it, austin is getting very attractive to tech start-ups.

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Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,482

@466,228 (Killer Lettuce 3D !!iNo3FkiZx)
It's because of surplus production. Something the rest of America outsourced to China.

squeegee !first/o5zA replied with this 12 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,488

@previous (H)
also quite a few corporations operate out of texas
http://governor.state.tx.us/files/ecodev/Texas_Largest_Companies.pdf

just look at the top 15, jesus

all we're missing is apple and google and i guess financial exchanges and banks, lol

dw ltd replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,490

@previous (squeegee !first/o5zA)
enron

squeegee !first/o5zA replied with this 12 years ago, 31 seconds later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,491

@previous (dw ltd)
we got halliburton too :)

Killer Lettuce 3D !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 12 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,500

@previous (squeegee !first/o5zA)
You also have Rooster Teeth!

Good old Rooster Teeth.

Ash !bbKEtchUp. joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #466,504

That website omg

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