I for one am willing to concede the secession of Northeastern states to the liberals and perhaps one or two of the upper midwest states. But I don’t think I want to give them the west coast. It’s too beautiful, and the climate is wonderful. If they want Canada, they’ll have to take those states compatible with Canadian weather. :-))

I think we should withdrawal from all international treaties and claim Antarctica. Once the ice melts, we could start a brand new nation down there. We are responsible for the polar ice caps melting anyway.

The problem with these assorted Hollywood blowhards and the Eminem-wimp types, is they don’t put their money where their mouth is. Take this other country, please.

Paul Henri,

Your observations are correct. They most certainly do not put their money where their mouths are. They never really “live” in urban areas, they live right outside of them. Bergen County, NJ, Long Island, NY, Bloomfield Hills outside of Detroit, etc.

Perhaps leftists do this as a form of unconscious superiority. Always nice to be big fish in little ponds.

Robert Redford should follow his cultural values and move to Compton or East L.A. I’m sure they’d love him there.

WOW Mark, a complement to little ole me. Thank you. (We all really need to do this more.)

If you want to look at the Democrat vs Republican territories, I would suggest that you look at a county by county map. http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

There seem to be two divides.
1. The culturally liberal Northeast and West vs the rest of the country.
2. urban and older suburbs vs exurbs and rural counties.

If the liberals want to submit a constitutional ammendment to allow secession, so be it.

I don’t even find it laughable (that some liberals are actively looking into moving to Canada. They (and gazillionaires like Redford) can afford to move anywhere they want to. Many of us are not so lucky. Hey, wasn’t there a group of young conservatives or libertarians who wanted to start a new state…in New Hampshire or some such small, New England state? Didn’t he advertize “Move to so-and-so a state with me and in time, we’ll take it over!”? I thought the chap was a nutcase. Moving to Canada shouldn’t be too hard or too strange for liberals; many of them did it during Vietnam.

This reminds me of George Orwell’s analysis of pro-soviet leftists in the 1940s; how the dog not only returned to its own vomit, but to other people’s vomit!

“[San Francisco Democrats] talk freely of […] abandoning America to live in some other country.”

I didn’t see it myself but someone told me that CNN ran a story tonight claiming 115,000 Americans have applied for Canadian immigration in the last 7 days. If true, that’s 20 times the normal rate.

The Canadian press has been following this story since mid-summer, priming us to expect a flood of “refugees” if the unthinkable happened in November. I’m already starting to see op-eds about how many we can afford to take in and whether or not they’ll assimilate.

There was also a minor flood of Pakistanis fleeing the U.S. for Canada last year when the immigration authorities clamped down on them. I wrote at the time how satisfying it was to think that Canada is now a more welcoming haven for third-world immigrants than the U.S. If American-hating liberals want to join Pakistanis in a common exile in hyper-liberal Canada, that’s fine with me.