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USAers. Your State is going to secede from the USA. Do you move away or stay?

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Posted - February 19, 2018

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  • 13277
    A moot point since no states are close to seceding.
      February 19, 2018 12:16 PM MST
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  • 44617
    Moot schmoot...hypothetical question.
      February 19, 2018 2:27 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Hypothetical shmypothetical. Life is lived in reality, not hypotheses.
      February 19, 2018 7:21 PM MST
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  • 5354
    Hypothetically I would move to Europe, and start living there.
    Whether some state is seceding is irrelevant.

    < edit > Oops, https://www.gq.com/story/new-california-is-a-bad-idea
    It seems to be some republicans who want to secede from California, split it up so they can make their own Utopia
    < /edit > This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at February 20, 2018 6:11 AM MST
      February 19, 2018 8:47 PM MST
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  • 5354
    Wasnt there something about California considering it as an option.
      February 19, 2018 8:49 PM MST
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  • 5835
    That joke has been around for almost 70 years that I have been aware of it. They were going to divide the state at San Francisco, then it was San Jose, then Santa Barbara, and so on until San Diego wanted to join Northern California and the only city left in Southern California was Los Angeles, which was the only thing everybody wanted all along, but they didn't mean to be so blatant about it, so they dropped the project.
      February 20, 2018 11:03 PM MST
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  • 7280
    Current Supreme Court precedent, in Texas v. White, holds that the states cannot secede from the union by an act of the state. More recently, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated, "If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede."

    So, "no"---nor would I want to.
      February 19, 2018 12:21 PM MST
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  • Since I have no problem answering hypothetical questions, here's my answer: next to nothing would make me leave California. I'm staying all the way. 
      February 19, 2018 12:39 PM MST
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  • I heard NHexit was a thing right after brexit. If I do Leave it’s because I hate this place, not because it wants to secede. The only thing that keeps me here is no sales tax. 
      February 19, 2018 12:42 PM MST
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  • 5354
    Are you sure that is serious. the website https://nhexit.com/
    looks like it may be a joke or satirical comment.
      February 20, 2018 2:53 PM MST
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  • idk I never looked too much in to it because I figured it wouldn’t get too far off the ground even if they were serious about it 
      February 20, 2018 3:22 PM MST
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  • 2052
    They have no military, and no fiscal budget for one. I'm leaving, quick as I can.  
      February 19, 2018 12:52 PM MST
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  • 10642
    I'd stay.  This state isn't fond of the rest of the US (it's always fighting with Washington's mandates), but so far no ones talked about secession.
      February 19, 2018 1:34 PM MST
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  • 46117
    My state?  I would move anywhere else but a state that thinks Trump was GREAT.
      February 19, 2018 1:48 PM MST
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  • 1713
    I'll stay just because I'm lazy and can't really afford to move anyway.
      February 19, 2018 4:24 PM MST
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  • Me too
      February 19, 2018 4:43 PM MST
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  • 3463
    Stay
      February 19, 2018 4:42 PM MST
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  • 5391
    Leave if the current governor was set to head the new territory. I live in Florida. I love it here. 


    This post was edited by Don Barzini at February 20, 2018 7:22 AM MST
      February 19, 2018 6:04 PM MST
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