Bon Voyage!

Blue states buzz over secession - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 09, 2004:
"In 1839, former President John Quincy Adams defended the right of secession in a speech in New York, saying, 'Far better will it be ... to part in friendship with each other than to be held together by constraint.'"

It seems that some folks are talking about the Kerry states seceding and forming a new country or federating with Canada. I am inclined to say go, and good riddance. But I think it would be better to look at the map by county and say let the Kerry counties go, that way my home in PA (Berks Co.) and my other home in SC (Greenville Co.) would still both be in the same country. If you look at the county level map, you notice that most of Pennsylvania and a large swath of New York State are Republican territory. For that matter, even on the West Coast, most of Washington and Oregon and a large swath of California voted Republican as well.

On a more serious note, I don't expect this effort to get near as far as the Hartford Convention did when New England was upset over the War of 1812. But, it sure is nice for us unreconstructed southrons to see them Yankees squirm a bit.