Below it the original post “Is Balkanization of the US Inevitable?”—but I missed one interesting movement: New California. Here’s a couple of ideas of re-drawing the map of California:
Seems Like a Reasonable Idea
Map of California Counties with Secessionist Committees: It Looks Like All of California wants to leave California? Hmmm..
Update on Greater Idaho:
This updated map shows one additional Eastern Oregon state county has voted to join Idaho: Wallowa County. You can read about it here.
The original post:
A friend of mine and I were discussing how this infestation of Marxist bullshit in big government, big corporations, big education and big “tech” will play out. Afterall, it’s almost certain that the absurdities, immaturity and unreality of our times it is completely unsustainable. The attacks on and insults to our best and grounded people, ie, conservatives, by our dumbass, woke-ass petty tyrants are intolerable to most of us.
All of this social, intellectual, moral decay; really insanity and nihilism is very similar to the trainwreck of the former USSR. That’s why I wrote my very recent post The West Is Collapsing As Russia is Rising as I see the historical parallels. (There, I included Putin’s comments on the parallels of the social Marxism in the US and EU today and the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.) Also, I was trying to anticipate or predict our own future and was even searching for a timeline of possible events using Russia’s revolutions as a reference.
It’s the “White” of Western Culture that seems to be particularly disgusting to The Left these days. It’s because hatred of our long and rich European (basically White) Cultural and Christian heritage is led by the dumbest of the dumb: US Blacks and dumbass, foolish Democrats. US Blacks and their hostility to Western (white) culture is really insane, but they tend to reject anything that they know little of, ie., everything.
Woke-ass Fools Making Asses of Themselves—All Democrats Of Course
White Western (European) Culture IS our heritage—like it or not. It’s a historical fact and can’t be changed. One thing for sure, our historical European culture can’t be replaced with African “culture” because their isn’t one. Yes, there’s some delightful local cultures, but mostly it’s a nightmare—even today. For example, “Black supremacy”is reasserting itself in South Africa, for example, with entirely predictable and disastrous violence, crime, chaos and really collapse. They can’t even keep the power on now. White citizens are perishing in ethnic cleansing attacks. Yep, that’s their “culture.”
Despite all evidence to the contrary, this black supremacy bullshit is being forced down your throats by those idiots who occupy the ranks of the “Joe Biden” junta, the idiot black wing of the Democrat party, those that used to occupy Twitter and those who still reign supreme in all of the various “woke” corporations and corporate boards. Here’s a list of corporations who vowed to boycott Twitter’s re-imposition of free speech—you know, the thing that made America famous? Pure insanity.
Europe has also been a building shitshow of Marxism for several generations now and is even in worse shape than the US. There, they have almost no contingent of Conservatism to buffer the idiocy of The Left. I lived in Europe in the middle 1980s and I could see the near-unanimous hatred toward anything conservative, including widespread derision toward Ron Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. I encountered a few elderly Europeans who still remembered history and had admiration for the anti-communist, anti-fascist right.
Now Europe is so obviously committing cultural and economic suicide that it’s extremely fascinating and sad to watch. Most recently, the Russophobia and hatred of the revival of their traditional cultural in Russia, led by Vlad Putin, is essentially a religious and cultural clash—and is really a hatred. Europe’s Orwellian propaganda machine is working in overdrive to march the entire West into a war with Russia and against reliable energy are obviously disastrous. Free Speech is a Crime in Europe. The shear insanity of it all is destined to end in a pile of smoldering (radioactive?) rubble of destruction—maybe annihilation.
Back to the issue of the possibility, or likelihood of a Balkanization of the US, it’s seems likely that something like that will happen before or after the calamity of war and a breakdown of our money and finance. I’m not sure of which comes first. All of the “Industrial Complexes” must be torn asunder and it will hurt. (Military-Industrial Complex, Big Tech-IC, Big Media-IC, Pharma-IC, etc.) We might not even survive as a country—thus my speculation regarding Balkanization of the US and Canada.
I’ve done you a favor and clicked around the internet to see where separatist movements are rising and I’ve summarized a few movements that seem to be viable below. Since I live in Texas, the first one is the most obvious:
Texit
Did you know that there is a well-organized Texas Independence movement? Im pretty sure that you're not surprised.
There is and it’s called the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM). Some 1/2 million people have joined that organization. Click here for the website.
Recent polls from RedStateSecession dot org showed that 74% of Texas Republicans and 59% of Texas Democrats support Texit.
TNM recently polled Texas Republicans to add a Texit initiative into the Republican Party platform. Some 90% voted in favor of Texit and agreed to add the two following “planks” to the TX Republican platform:
Plank 33 reads:
“33. State Sovereignty: Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified. Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.”
Plank 225 reads:
“225. Texas Independence: We urge the Texas Legislature to pass a bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”
They are organizing ongoing meetings of citizens across the State to promote their goal of Texas Independence. I’ve recently joined and will be attending local meetings soon.
The portions of Washington State and Oregon east of the Cascade mountains have irreconcilable differences with their western counterparts, but have much in common with Idaho. Farmers in eastern WA & OR struggle under unreasonable laws created by urban lawmakers on the states' west sides who do not understand agriculture.
State-level politicians from the east sides of the states return the favor by wreaking havoc on political decisions important to the west sides, blocking for example funds for the repair of deadly dangerous earthquake-damaged infrastructure.
Further, the residents of each side of each state have such deeply different ideas about the 2nd Amendment and gun laws that no set of laws can satisfy both sides.
Dividing Washington State and Oregon down along the middle of the Cascade mountain range, and moving the eastern portions of both states to Idaho, would allow farmers in those areas to become more productive under more sympathetic and understanding political leadership, while allowing political leadership on the west sides to make decisions for the west unimpeded by obstructionists exacting revenge.
Oregon Counties Vote to Join Idaho
From GreaterIdaho.com, Here’s the latest on Oregon county votes:
The Wallowa County Clerk notified the Greater Idaho movement today that it has submitted enough valid signatures to force its ballot initiative onto the May 2023 Wallowa County, Oregon ballot. She awarded the initiative a measure number: 32-007.
So far, eleven eastern Oregon counties have voted for the movement’s ballot measures. The movement proposes to add fifteen conservative rural counties to Idaho by convincing the state legislatures of Oregon and Idaho to move their common state line. The purpose of the initiatives is to show state legislators that voters want them to begin talks with Idaho to move the border, according to the movement’s website greateridaho.org .
Matt McCaw, the movement’s spokesman, said “eastern Oregon is mostly ranchland, and Portland is not. It doesn’t make sense for these two cultures to be dictating policy to each other. Portland voters forced a gun control measure on the whole state, although eastern Oregon voters almost defeated it. And then an eastern Oregon judge blocked it. His injunction might stand for a couple years while he decides the case. If Oregon had let Grant and Harney counties go when they requested to join Idaho, then their judge wouldn’t have blocked an Oregon measure.”
Southern Illinois Wants to Secede
From Red-State Secession at Substack is a report of the results of the November 9, 2022 vote in Illinois. In total, 27 Illinois Counties Have Voted to Split the State. Take a look at the results on a map of Illinois:
Election results this morning show strong support for the idea of splitting Illinois into two states. Voters approved referendums on the topic in Brown County by 77%, Hardin County by 76%, and two townships in Madison County (Lee 75% and New Douglas 68%).
This brings the total number of counties in southern and central Illinois to approve the measure to 27, according to a map released by organizers today. No counties have rejected the measure. The referendums are non-binding.
The referendums ask voters “Shall the board of your county correspond with the boards of the other counties of Illinois outside of Cook County about the possibility of separating from Cook County to form a new state, and to seek admission to the Union as such, subject to the approval of the people?”
Earlier, Illinois state legislators introduced legislation regarding the idea, and were granted a hearing, but the bill failed to clear the legislative committee.
State legislators in Kentucky and Missouri have expressed interest to the organizers about annexing downstate Illinois to their own state by moving a state border, but are waiting for a response from downstate Illinois state legislators.
There appear to be other movements to realign borders. A few western Virginia Counties are trying to organize and become part of West Virginia. The same can be said about some western Maryland counties (to join WV).
“COSA is an organization that is working to organize a convention of states, according to a provision in the Constitution that allows amendments to be written by a coalition of three-quarters of U.S. states. “
Simple: to bring power back to the states and the people, where it belongs. Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. shouldn’t be allowed to make sweeping decisions that impact millions of Americans. But right now, they do. So it all boils down to one question: Who do you think should decide what’s best for you and your family? You, or the feds? We’d vote for the American people every single time.
This movement seeks to rein in the power of the federal government through provisions like term limits for Congress and federal officials, budget caps, and other provisions to de-centralize America’s political system and return more power to state governments.
What’s a Convention of States anyway?
Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives states the power to call a Convention of States to propose amendments. It takes 34 states to call the convention and 38 to ratify any amendments that are proposed. Our convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”
“We’re starting to see movement in this direction generally,” Meckler said, “and it’s because people, regardless of party, are fed up with Washington D.C.”
Currently, 19 states have fully approved legislation calling for a convention of states, seven states have approved the measure in one legislative chamber, and 11 states are considering legislation this year. Check it out:
State-by-state progress in approving a convention of states (source: conventionofstates.com)
“The only way we stay together as a nation is by coming apart, and the way that we come apart and still stay together is by being a federalist nation,” Meckler said.
