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Check your local laws and make sure never to travel outside your current state.
by Hamuko 1y ago
Check your local laws and make sure never to travel outside your current state.
- bee_rider 1y agoStates should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff, if we don’t have unity across the country. It could be easy and voluntary for the states to do. The US doesn’t have 50 different cultures with totally different values, but probably has like… 7.
- lenerdenator 1y agoThis sounds great, until those states hate each other and want to get one over on the other one, even if they're ideologically aligned. Source: am from Kansas City.
- Buttons840 1y agoYeah, increasing political tension--and not just any political tension, but political tension between states--doesn't seem good.
- lenerdenator 1y agoHistorically speaking, the tension in this case (between Missouri and Kansas) is low. No cities are on fire and there aren't raiding parties crossing the border.
- kennyloginz 1y agoThis is true. Source: am from St. Louis.
- gapan 1y ago> States should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff... Yes! Make a union of states! How should we call that? States Union... Union of States... United States! Yeah, that should work.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoThe US would make a lot more sense if it split up between two or three different countries. There's a lot of stuff in US politics which people feel strongest about but are absolutely mutually exclusive. I think it's going to happen one way or another and the most peaceful way to do it would be sooner rather than later.
- ethbr1 1y agoWe tried that. It didn't go well for any involved.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoAt the time only side wanted to leave. That's no longer the case.
- Yeul 1y agoVast parts of the US are not economically viable and basically propped up by blue states.
- fc417fc802 1y agoNot a great line of argument. Vast parts of the US are not food secure and are "basically propped up by" a conservative bread basket. Large portions of the agricultural industry are not economically viable without illegal immigrants. Much of the defense industry and military is populated by conservatives. Such examples are as numerous as they are irrelevant to sensible discussions of policy.
- bee_rider 1y agoIt seems relevant to the chain of comments they were responding to. They are disagreeing with the comment that says multiple states might want to split up the country now, by pointing out that some of them might not be economically viable if they did. You’ve come up with more reasons not to split up the country, by pointing out some ways the other parts of the country might have trouble. I think (correct me if I’m wrong) you disagree with the partisan jab at the end, not the actual line of argument.
- asa400 1y ago> The US doesn’t have 50 different cultures with totally different values... Indeed. It has far more than that. The US is astonishingly diverse.
- closewith 1y agoThe US is astonishingly homogenous for its size and population. I'm not sure what possible metric you could use to claim otherwise?
- asa400 1y agoEver spent any time in Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Jose, Casper, Traverse City, Nashville, New York, Buffalo, New Orleans, Cortez, Lubbock, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Jackson, Boston, Seattle? In your mind, are these all filled with people who look the same, sound the same, practice the same religion, immigrated from the same place?
- tptacek 1y agoInstead of just relying on your intuition, you can just look this up, because it's a well-studied question. One simple search is for "fractionalization". If you'd like me to save you the trouble, then, with respect to your claim here: no.