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« on: October 23, 2014, 12:38:37 PM »
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reagan-aide-calls-for-southern-secession

Cautioning that all his secession talk was purely "academic," MacKinnon suggested that South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida break away from the United States and form a new republic named "Reagan."

An odd choice of states...
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2014, 12:42:53 PM »
"I wanted to call it Reaganland, but the gay bar by the airport has that name already"-Peter Griffin
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2014, 12:45:45 PM »
What a weird collection of states to think would want to secede in the name of Ronald Reagan.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 12:46:37 PM »
Quote from: retromike22 on October 23, 2014, 12:38:37 PM
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reagan-aide-calls-for-southern-secession

Cautioning that all his secession talk was purely "academic," MacKinnon suggested that South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida break away from the United States and form a new republic named "Reagan."

An odd choice of states...


You can't say something so predictable and derivative and call it Academic.  
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2014, 12:49:30 PM »
Quote from: King on October 23, 2014, 12:45:45 PM
What a weird collection of states to think would want to secede in the name of Ronald Reagan.

Not so fast.  The oddball one is obviously Florida, but that's quite the collection of good Southern boys and pasty old farts that just love their Ronnie, isn't it? 
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2014, 12:59:47 PM »
Miss and Alabama are more delusional secession pride states than any of those three. To secede and be called Reagan? I would peg rural California, rural Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as Ronnieland.
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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2014, 01:15:50 PM »
Thing is, obviously this guy wants to avoid the mistake made in 1860-1, where secession cut off the Mississippi River, thus giving the North an economic motive for invading.  So Mississippi has the misfortune of have to stay in Homostan to allow those who could secede to do so.  I guess Alabama also is being rejected from inclusion into Reaganstan so as to not interfere with steamboats on the Tennessee River.
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« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2014, 01:25:49 PM »
Georgia? Oh, you mean the State Reagan lost by 15 points in 1980... Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2014, 01:32:51 PM »
I spent a week in rural Florida this past August visiting some family, and I cannot tell you how many pro-secession bumper stickers I saw in ultra-Republican Highlands County, Florida, where Romney won almost 61% of the vote, and hasn't been won by a Democratic Presidential candidate in any election that the Atlas has county data available for. I think I also saw one "Proud To Be White" sticker on the back of a Chevy Silverado in a Winn-Dixie parking lot.
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« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2014, 02:31:44 PM »
I support any motion that involves Florida's secession.
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« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2014, 02:32:45 PM »


Blue: Reaganstan
Green: Liberty Republic

People can then migrate to these areas so they won't be "oppressed." It can be just like when India and Pakistan were divided!
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« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2014, 02:44:04 PM »
Reaganstan is everywhere except DC and Minnesota.
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« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2014, 05:07:02 PM »
Ronald Reagan was from Illinois/California and that MacKinnon guy wants to name a nation located nowhere near those states after Reagan... mhm...
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« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2014, 06:06:08 PM »
Quote from: Breaking hearts and minds on October 23, 2014, 05:07:02 PM
Ronald Reagan was from Illinois/California and that MacKinnon guy wants to name a nation located nowhere near those states after Reagan... mhm...

Tradition.

Washington State is nowhere near Virgina and Wyoming is nowhere near Pennsylvania.
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« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2014, 07:30:01 PM »
Quote from: shua on October 23, 2014, 02:44:04 PM
Reaganstan is everywhere except DC and Minnesota.

and apparently a gay bar in Quahog. 
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« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2014, 09:28:34 PM »
Quote from: angus on October 23, 2014, 07:30:01 PM
Quote from: shua on October 23, 2014, 02:44:04 PM
Reaganstan is everywhere except DC and Minnesota.

and apparently a gay bar in Quahog. 

...at the airport.
But seriously. Reagan was about tearing walls down. These people LOVE walls.
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