In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated, so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR.
Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia
and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus; and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Transnistria then broke free of Moldova, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia fought free of Georgia.
Yugoslavia dissolved far more violently into the nations of Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo.
The Slovaks seceded from Czechoslovakia. Yet a Europe that plunged
straight to war after the last breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and
1939 this time only yawned. Let them go, all agreed.
The spirit of secession, the desire of peoples to sever ties to
nations to which they have belonged for generations, sometimes for
centuries, and to seek out their own kind, is a spreading phenomenon.
Scotland is moving toward a referendum on independence from England,
three centuries after the Acts of Union. Catalonia pushes to be free of
Madrid. Milanese and Venetians see themselves as a European people apart
from Sicilians, Neapolitans and Romans.
Dutch-speaking Flanders wants to cut loose of French-speaking
Wallonia in Belgium. Francophone Quebec, with immigrants from Asia and
the Third World tilting the balance in favor of union, appears to have
lost its historic moment to secede from Canada.
What are the forces pulling nations apart? Ethnicity, culture,
history and language – but now also economics. And separatist and
secessionist movements are cropping up here in the United States.
While many red state Americans are moving away from blue state
America, seeking kindred souls among whom to live, those who love where
they live but not those who rule them are seeking to secede.
The five counties of western Maryland – Garrett, Allegany,
Washington, Frederick and Carroll, which have more in common with West
Virginia and wish to be rid of Baltimore and free of Annapolis, are
talking secession.
The issues driving secession in Maryland are gun control, high taxes, energy policy, homosexual marriage and immigration.
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Scott Strzelczyk, who lives in the town of Windsor in Carroll County
and leads the Western Maryland Initiative, argues: “If you have a long
list of grievances, and it’s been going on for decades, and you can’t
get it resolved, ultimately [secession] is what you have to do.”
And there is precedent. Four of our 50 states – Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, West Virginia – were born out of other states.
Ten northern counties of Colorado
are this November holding non-binding referenda to prepare a future
secession from Denver and the creation of America’s 51st state.
Nine of the 10 Colorado counties talking secession and a new state,
writes Reid Wilson of the Washington Post – Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan,
Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and Yuma – all gave more
than 62 percent of their votes to Mitt Romney. Five of these 10 counties
gave Romney more than 75 percent of their vote.
Their issues with the Denver legislature: A new gun control law that
triggered a voter recall of two Democratic state senators, state
restrictions on oil exploration and the Colorado legislature’s
party-line vote in support of gay marriage.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/is-red-state-america-seceding/print/
