What would happen if there were two Americas?

[ck4829]

Imagine for a second that America split in two.

One America had the policies of the Democratic Party (Health care, workers rights, privacy, etc.)

The other America had the policies of the Republican Party (War, corporate rights, anti-choice, etc.)

How do you think it would work out?

Where would the people choose to live?

Who would be happier?

Which one would be more successful?

[LiberalFighter]

1. Bush would go to war against the other America

[willing dwarf]

5. Touche!

Says it all!

[Philosoraptor]

7. Yes, the assholes on the right would incite a civil war.

[OneBlueSky]

2. simple . . . Right America would attack Left America at the earliest possible time . . .

killing or incarcerating its citizens and taking all resources for their own use . . .

[varelse]

3. Republican America would invade Democratic America

and we'd all be working as their slaves, because our middle class would be funding research, health, education and welfare while their ultra-mega rich class would be funding the military, so they'd win.

[Posteritatis]

4. There'd be about 1.2 Americas a few years later. (nt)

[bryant69]

6. Hard to say. I suspect that the Liberal States of America would be generally more successful

But the Conservative States of America would have it's strengths as well - probably a lot of companies would have their corporate headquarters and manufacturing in Conservative America (low taxes, low regulation, no unions) and their creative people in Liberal America (Better education, more freedom of thought).

Kind of rough on those DUers who live in Conservative America.

Bryant
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[carlyhippy]

8. would liberal america legalize pot?

the repubes would wage war on the other america, so this new improved side of the country wouldn't last long, unfortunately...but we would be the cooler america anyway, we would have more people on our side eventually....I'll bet there are many rebubs who are closet demos anyway.

[Mr. Blonde]

9. Being that people seem to be moving from

blue states into red ones the answer might not be what you assume.

Ultimately the poor state of education in the conservative states would get them.

[DU9598]

10. See USA v. Canada

Pretty good comparison - except would we let people speak French? lol, of course, and Spanish too!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. The Right-wing one would become a superpower, the left-wing one would have higher living standards.

[The2ndWheel]

12. The world system is based on greater integration of all aspects of life

You start disintegrating the core of that world system, I'd say everything starts to change.

[flashl]

13. Can't imagine those two, but, two or more Americas already exist, the division is economical.

And, to use the red and blue symbols, we can see that the economical divide is purple.

[KansDem]

14. I think this about sums it up...

Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornados, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties.

By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Sincerely,

Author Unknown in New California

This has been on the tubular-internet(s) for awhile, but I think it provides a nice summary.