I'm not a big fan of "the south" and some of the people who champion ideas like "southern honor" and etc., but I was going to say, and as vm's map shows, we might be better off getting rid of the mid-West. Their new phraseology "Middle America", "Real Americans" etc is really starting to bug even more than "southern honor" and "southern manners"
As vm's map shows, we should probably just get rid of Tornado Alley. Then we won't have to care about (or help pay for) all the damage done to various trailer parks by tornadoes either!
In the meantime, I've always wanted California to secede. If any state could make it on its own, it's CA, and although Abe was definitely great in a lot of ways, I've never been fully onboard with this bizarre obsession with preserving the union at all costs. If the union works, great. If it doesn't, why should anyone HAVE to stay a part of it? I know a lot of Californians that are tired of geting about $.75 (or less maybe, can't be bothered to look it up right now) worth of services for every dollar we send east, and then being mocked by the rest of the country as crazies in general and filthy liberals, politically, to boot. Way to bite the hand that feeds. But, we never do anything about it.
