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America as Several Smaller Nations (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been wondering about how well a lot of American states could function if they where fully independent states. I'm not thinking every state would be it's own country but states banding together and becoming there own countries. An example of this California, Oregon, and Washington.

I'm thinking that kind of like the Fediverse it is easier to manage and do more the people on a smaller scale.

What do others think of this?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

California and the other rich blue states funds the rest of the US’ poor ass states, so I'd love for them to stop suckling on our teat.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Texas is red, and second in GDP, they can support the red states, lol

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Texas can't even properly support their own power infrastructure inside their own state
The vast majority of the population of Texas (Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas/Ft Worth) are solidly blue. The state maps are gerrymandered to death such that 100,000 square miles of empty land has the same voting power as over ten million citizens. This is the sole and only reason Texas is consistently "red", is via rampant voter disenfranchisement.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I agree, what a little regulation could do to help them out
I agree, and it just got a lot worse maybe
I actually think Texas would stay on its own as it is still a republic and wouldn't want to support another state, as you said they can barely support themselves

As an aside, when Republicans were shown platforms without an R or D next to it IIRC they were more likely to choose the D platform.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds good to me. xD