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Originally Posted by Bluffing024  Say we wanted to make everyone happy and we split into two separate countries, one that had everyone that voted for McCain (conservatives) and one with everyone that voted for Osama (liberals) with their respective leaders to run both. What do you think would happen? I am sure you would end up with one side with a very strong military and very financially successful. The other side would have enormous crime rates, high poverty and a tiny weak military. One would become a super power and the other would want to merge and then slowly turn it back into what it has become today. |
I would think it would turn out like that..
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Originally Posted by RedFoxGT  Last time I checked California and New York were Blue States.
BTW that already happed.....it was called the Civil War. 
I think we all know how that turned out.  |
Comparing the republican run civil war era north to todays liberal blue states is laughable. the political climate has changed so much since then.. todays most conservative republicans would be considered radical liberals or socialist by the republicans of the 1860's and laughed out of politics.. Todays liberals would be unthinkable in those times. Neither the dems or repubs of today would elect a single member to congress or senate let alone the presidency in those days.
there is no way you can compare any of the political parties of the mid 19th century to anything in politics today.
It's like comparing apples to aircraft carriers