And that’s just for the people of color with the means to relocate. They’d have to take cut-rate prices for their homes or land or businesses, and then use those meager funds to set up again in the (likely more expensive) “New Scandamerica” or whatever we’d call ourselves. They certainly couldn’t take their land with them. Even if the New Confederacy allowed Black people to leave (unlike the last time this trick was pulled), they wouldn’t be allowed to go with their wealth intact.

Florida has the second-highest number of Black residents, at 3.8 million.Īnd it would happen here, again, just like it has everywhere and every time else. Texas is only 14 percent Black, but 3.9 million Black people live in Texas, more than anywhere else. Mississippi is 39 percent Black, Louisiana 33 percent Black, Greene’s own Georgia 32 percent Black. The New Confederacy dreamed up by people like Greene includes the states with the largest percentage of Black folks by population, and the largest raw numbers of Black people. Now, as in the past, the white folks who want to secede will take a whole lot of Black people with them. White conservatives like Greene are fairly open about their desire to create a white homeland in the New World: Greene literally requested disunion from “the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats” and “the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies.”īut she won’t go alone. At the very least, it would make the Super Bowl more interesting.Īnd yet, the core problem with secession today is the same as the last time it was tried. Splitting up the country and turning one half of it into “South Canada” while leaving the other half to devolve into an insular, broke, Christo-fascist petro state doesn’t actually sound like a bad idea for the world. We are not really worried that a foreign enemy would attack a fractured and weakened territory, one side after the other, in order to eventually subjugate both, are we? Our current union allows us to project military and economic power on a global stage, but it’s not at all clear that we use that power for good. But one might ask what, precisely, modern-day America stands for. I’m aware that “a house divided cannot stand” and all that. That’s because the arguments against secession are actually quite poor, at least philosophically. You can’t post a story about Texas or Florida without a liberal openly advocating for secession or at least posting the Bugs Bunny gif where he cuts off Florida and sets it adrift.

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